Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Solon

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Bob Newhart

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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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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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Camus, Albert

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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 is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis