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

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

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

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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.

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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 a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

William Cowper

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Rooney, Andy

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Herold, Don