Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

- Ayn Rand

Best Quotes about Happiness

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

Rooney, Andy

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Thomas Szasz

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Aristotle

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.