Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

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

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

William Cowper

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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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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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Stein, Ben

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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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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Confucius

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

Horton, Doug

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.