Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

- Knuth, Don

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Rohn, Jim

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Abraham Lincoln

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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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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 secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Christopher Morley

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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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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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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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 is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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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)

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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

George Burns

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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

Meltzer, Bernard