Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Thomas Szasz

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

Oscar Levant

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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Christopher Morley

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

David Assael

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Proverb, Scottish

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.