Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Landor, Walter Savage

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Rockefeller, John D.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Nielsen, A.

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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.

Heywood, John

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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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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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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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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.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Bob Newhart

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Roy M. Goodman

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns