Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Happiness

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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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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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Russell, Bertrand

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

William Cowper

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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 not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim