Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about Happiness

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Confucius

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

William Cowper

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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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

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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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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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling