Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

- Bonnell, John S.

Best Quotes about Happiness

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

Rockefeller, John D.

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

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

Prutz

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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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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 in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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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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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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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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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Lucian

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

William Cowper

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Ketchel, Holly

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.