Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Confucius

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Buchan, John

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

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

William Cowper

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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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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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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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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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

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

Dalai Lama

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.