Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Storm Jameson

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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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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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

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Horton, Doug

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Camus, Albert

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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

Thomas Szasz

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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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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Chuck Sigars

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

William Cowper

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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 secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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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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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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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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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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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