Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Happiness

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

James Oppenheim

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Herold, Don

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

Ann Radcliffe

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lao-Tzu

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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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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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

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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 adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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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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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Prutz

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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

Feather, William

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Camus, Albert

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)