Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Happiness

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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 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

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

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Camus, Albert

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Mason, John L.

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Roy M. Goodman

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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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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 serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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 arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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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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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Christopher Morley

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor