Motivational Quotes

Happiness

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Alda, Alan

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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

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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

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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 world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

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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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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Oscar Levant

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Spencer, Herbert

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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

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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 a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

William Cowper

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark