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

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

Roy M. Goodman

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

Lucian

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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.

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

Saroyan, William

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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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

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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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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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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

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

James Oppenheim

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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

Lao-Tzu

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

William Cowper

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bradley, Amanda