Motivational Quotes

Happiness

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

- Solon

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Horton, Doug

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Maxwell, William

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Greene, Graham

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

Christopher Morley

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Diderot, Denis

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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.