Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Happiness

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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

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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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

William Cowper

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Saroyan, William

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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 consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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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

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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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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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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