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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Feather, William

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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 a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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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.

Strindberg, J. August

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