Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Alcott, Louisa May

Best Quotes about Happiness

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

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

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

Oscar Levant

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Lao-Tzu

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Nielsen, A.

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

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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