Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

- Yeats, William Butler

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Horton, Doug

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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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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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Diderot, Denis

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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 a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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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

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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 sort of action.

Aristotle

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Ayn Rand

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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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

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

Bono, Edward De

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Orwell, George

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier