Motivational Quotes

Happiness

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Happiness

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Mason, John L.

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Muller, Max

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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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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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Rooney, Andy

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

Cloete, Stuart

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Bob Newhart

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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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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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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Al Batt

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

Goodman, Roy

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.