Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

- Cloete, Stuart

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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.

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

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Yeats, William Butler

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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 seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Bono, Edward De

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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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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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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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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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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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 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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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.