Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Rockefeller, John D.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Nash, Ogden

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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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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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Aristotle

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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