Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Happiness

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

Mason, John L.

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Goodman, Roy

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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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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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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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

David Assael

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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 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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Camus, Albert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Clyde, R.D.