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

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

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

Kin Hubbard

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Cloete, Stuart

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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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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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

29.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Mason, John L.

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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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 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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb