Motivational Quotes

Happiness

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

- Smith, Adam

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

Camus, Albert

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

Chuck Sigars

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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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 is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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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 really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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