Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

- Bennett, Arnold

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Jonathan Haidt

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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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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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Johnson, Samuel

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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 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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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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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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 radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh