Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Meredith, Owen

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Saroyan, William

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

14.

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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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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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bob Newhart

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

24.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

27.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

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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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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

33.

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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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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 activity.

Aristotle

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

45.

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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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