Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Boone, Daniel

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Proverb, Scottish

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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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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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bono, Edward De

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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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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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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 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

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Lucian

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

Stein, Ben

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Russell, Bertrand

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Abraham Lincoln