Motivational Quotes

Happiness

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

- Caron, Leslie

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Orwell, George

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

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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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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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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

Stein, Ben

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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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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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 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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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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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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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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Johnson, Samuel

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