Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Bentham, Jeremy

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Mill, John Stuart

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

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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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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Confucius

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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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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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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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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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 not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Lao-Tzu

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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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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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