Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Goodman, Roy

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lao-tzu

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

Nash, Ogden

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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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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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Rooney, Andy

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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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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

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Farrall, Joseph

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.