Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Bergson, Henri L.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Chuck Sigars

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

Bob Newhart

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

Szasz, Thomas

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Christopher Morley

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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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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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

Feather, William

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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.

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.