Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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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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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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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Ann Radcliffe

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Bob Newhart

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

Smith, Adam

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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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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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig