Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

- Kindleberger, J.

Best Quotes about Happiness

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Stossel, John

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

14.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

15.

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

Horton, Doug

16.

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

Mill, John Stuart

17.

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

18.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

20.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

22.

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Aristotle

25.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

26.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

27.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

28.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Bob Newhart

30.

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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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

32.

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

33.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

34.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

35.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

36.

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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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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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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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

41.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Landor, Walter Savage

45.

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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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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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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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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