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

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

David Assael

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

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bono, Edward De

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Rooney, Andy

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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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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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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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Horton, Doug

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Prutz

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

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Lucian

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Byron, Lord

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Nash, Ogden

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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.

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