Motivational Quotes

Happiness

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

- Oliphant, Margaret

Best Quotes about Happiness

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Bradley, Amanda

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Buchan, John

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

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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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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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

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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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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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 is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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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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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Benjamin Franklin

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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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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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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