Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Stossel, John

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

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

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Alcott, Louisa May

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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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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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

Muller, Max

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.