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

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Ann Radcliffe

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

12.

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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Benjamin Franklin

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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 depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

Rockefeller, John D.

25.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lucian

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

David Assael

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

40.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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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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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu