Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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

Confucius

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Prutz

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Muller, Max

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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

Rohn, Jim

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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 serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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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