Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

- Lucas, E. V.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horton, Doug

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

Wilde, Oscar

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Robert Frost

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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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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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

20.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

J.K. Rowling

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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

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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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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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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