Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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

Mill, John Stuart

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

George Burns

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Camus, Albert

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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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

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.