Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Stein, Ben

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

William Cowper

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

Fielding, Henry

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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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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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker