Motivational Quotes

Happiness

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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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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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

Herold, Don

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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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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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Christopher Morley

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Levenson, Samuel

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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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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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

C. P. Snow

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis