Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Happiness

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

James Oppenheim

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Camus, Albert

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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

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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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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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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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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Fountain., John

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Dalai Lama

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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

42.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

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

Muller, Max

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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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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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Lincoln, Abraham