Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

- Maslow, Abraham H.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Billings, Josh

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

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Greene, Graham

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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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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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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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 is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Levenson, Samuel

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Lucian

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Chuck Sigars

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Camus, Albert

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David