Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Democritus

Best Quotes about Happiness

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fichte, Johann G.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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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 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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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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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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.