Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Horace

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

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Stein, Ben

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

18.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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 comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Johnson, Samuel

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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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

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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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.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Horton, Doug

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William