Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

- Rubin, Theodore I.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Goodman, Roy

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Fountain., John

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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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 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 consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Orwell, George

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

Camus, Albert

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Cloete, Stuart

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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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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John