Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Maxwell, William

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Stossel, John

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Prutz

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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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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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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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Robert Frost

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

Fielding, Henry

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug