Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Happiness

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark