Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Dalai Lama

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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 and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Lao-tzu

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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 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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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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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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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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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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Horton, Doug

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper