Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

- Knuth, Don

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Christopher Morley

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Camus, Albert

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

Dalai Lama

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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

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

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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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