Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

- Muggeridge, Malcolm

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Lucian

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Fichte, Johann G.

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

Camus, Albert

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Greene, Graham

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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 comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Mason, John L.

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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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

Robert Frost

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

Boone, Daniel

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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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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 understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

Prutz

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.