Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Sokoloff, Boris

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Mahatma Gandhi

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

14.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

15.

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

William Cowper

16.

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

17.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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

19.

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

20.

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

Feather, William

21.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

22.

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 is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

24.

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

26.

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

28.

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

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

30.

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

31.

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

32.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

33.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

34.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

35.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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

Spencer, Herbert

40.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

41.

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

Kin Hubbard

42.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

43.

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

44.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

David Assael

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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

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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 comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre