Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

- Rohr, Richard

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Buchan, John

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

Lao-Tzu

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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

Muller, Max

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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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Confucius

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Oprah Winfrey

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

Smith, Adam

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

Alda, Alan

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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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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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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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 is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.