Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Rockefeller, John D.

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Bob Newhart

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

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)

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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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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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Roy M. Goodman

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Jonathan Haidt

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent