Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

- Upanishads, Veda

Best Quotes about Happiness

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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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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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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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 only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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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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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Maxwell, William

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Muller, Max

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles