Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Happiness

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Sokoloff, Boris

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

Diderot, Denis

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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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 happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Proverb, Scottish

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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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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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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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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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln