Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Christopher Morley

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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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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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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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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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 is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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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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

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Camus, Albert

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Epictetus

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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 resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stein, Ben

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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.