Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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.

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

James Oppenheim

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

Oliphant, Margaret

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Nicole Kidman

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Confucius

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

David Assael

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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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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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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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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 a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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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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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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

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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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert