Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

- Proverb, Russian

Best Quotes about Happiness

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Farrall, Joseph

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Proverb, Spanish

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Camus, Albert

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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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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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques