Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Happiness

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''

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

C. P. Snow

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Stein, Ben

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Fielding, Henry

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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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 makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Storm Jameson

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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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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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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

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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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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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Lao-tzu

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Horton, Doug

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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