Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

- Heatter, Gabriel

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

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

Maxwell, William

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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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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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Orwell, George

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

Byron, Lord

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

Huxley, Aldous

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Jonathan Haidt

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Stein, Ben

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Jeans, Sir James

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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 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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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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

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.