Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Diderot, Denis

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Stein, Ben

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.

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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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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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Oscar Levant

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lao-tzu

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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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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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Nash, Ogden

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Horton, Doug

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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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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

Geneen, Harold S.