Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Happiness

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's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

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

Lucian

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

10.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

11.

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

Horton, Doug

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

13.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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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.

15.

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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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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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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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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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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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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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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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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

44.

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

George Burns

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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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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.