Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Happiness

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Herold, Don

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Saroyan, William

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Chuck Sigars

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Mason, John L.

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.