Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Waitley, Denis

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

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Orwell, George

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

Lao-tzu

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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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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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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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

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

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls