Motivational Quotes

Happiness

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Muller, Max

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

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Oscar Levant

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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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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.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Lao-tzu

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

Lao-Tzu

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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.

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

Camus, Albert

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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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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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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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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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.