Motivational Quotes

Happiness

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

Prazlin, Duchess

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Huxley, Aldous

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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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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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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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

22.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Prutz

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

Bono, Edward De

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Kennedy, John F.

35.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lao-Tzu

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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 seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates