Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

- Walters, J. Donald

Best Quotes about Happiness

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Solon

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dalai Lama

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

11.

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

Roy M. Goodman

12.

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

Horton, Doug

15.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

17.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

18.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

21.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

23.

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proust, Marcel

28.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

29.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

30.

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

31.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

34.

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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

36.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Clyde, R.D.

38.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

40.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Oscar Levant

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

49.

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.