Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

- Meredith, Owen

Best Quotes about Happiness

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Maxwell, William

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Benjamin Franklin

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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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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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 journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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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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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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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

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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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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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 world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don