Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Happiness

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

Prazlin, Duchess

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

10.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

11.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

12.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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 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

17.

People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

19.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Cloete, Stuart

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

24.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

26.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

28.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

29.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

30.

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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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nicole Kidman

40.

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

Solon

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Oscar Levant

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig