Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Jeans, Sir James

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

Thomas Szasz

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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.

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

Bob Newhart

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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 is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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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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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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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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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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

Josh Billings

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

Ketchel, Holly

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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.