Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Happiness

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Horton, Doug

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Mason, John L.

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Herold, Don

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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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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier