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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Oscar Levant

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Rohn, Jim

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Abraham Lincoln

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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 was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Nash, Ogden

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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

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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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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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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

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Nielsen, A.

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.