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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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.

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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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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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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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

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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

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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

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Herold, Don

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Dalai Lama

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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.

Rohr, Richard

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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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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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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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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