Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Happiness

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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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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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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Stein, Ben

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

Fielding, Henry

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi 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 attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

Proverb, Scottish

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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 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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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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 is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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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 adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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)

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Solon

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