Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

- Oscar Levant

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Smith, Adam

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Camus, Albert

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Freud, Sigmund

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Jonathan Haidt

10.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

11.

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

12.

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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

14.

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

15.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

17.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

19.

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

Christopher Morley

20.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

21.

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

22.

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

Mason, John L.

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

25.

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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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

27.

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

28.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

29.

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

30.

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

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Bono, Edward De

34.

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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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