Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Nash, Ogden

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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

Christopher Morley

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

Dalai Lama

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

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Clyde, R.D.

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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

Rooney, Andy

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Solon

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.