Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Meltzer, Bernard

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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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

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Camus, Albert

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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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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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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 not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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 creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

Mason, John L.

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.