Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

James Oppenheim

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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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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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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

Oscar Levant

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

Bob Newhart

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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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Feather, William

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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 makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dalai Lama

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Horton, Doug

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Proust, Marcel

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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