Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Smith, Adam

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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 consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

John Berry

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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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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

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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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 a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

Prevert, Jacques

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Bob Newhart

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jonathan Haidt

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Mason, John L.

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

Freud, Sigmund

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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

Ayn Rand

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Proust, Marcel