Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

- Lucian

Best Quotes about Happiness

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Saroyan, William

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

Stossel, John

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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 a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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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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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

Horton, Doug

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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

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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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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