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

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Orwell, George

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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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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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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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Szasz, Thomas

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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

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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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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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