Motivational Quotes

Happiness

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

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

Hesse, Hermann

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

31.

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''

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

35.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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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 lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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 only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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 is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume