Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

- William Cowper

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

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''

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Bob Newhart

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Jeans, Sir James

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

Orwell, George

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Goodman, Roy

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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 understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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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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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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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.

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Stossel, John

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo