Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Lucian

Best Quotes about Happiness

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Fielding, Henry

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

James Oppenheim

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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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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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 only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

George Burns

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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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 comes from... some curious adjustment to life.