Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Happiness

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

Greene, Graham

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 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

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Goodman, Roy

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Fielding, Henry

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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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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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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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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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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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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

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.