Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Aristotle

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Hubbard, Elbert

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

10.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

11.

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

12.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

14.

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

15.

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

19.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

20.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

21.

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

22.

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

24.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

25.

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

Muller, Max

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

29.

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

30.

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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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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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

34.

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

Proust, Marcel

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lao-tzu

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

Fielding, Henry

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

42.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.