Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Alcott, Louisa May

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Jeans, Sir James

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

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

Maxwell, William

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Nielsen, A.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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