Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Best Quotes about Happiness

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Orwell, George

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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

Bob Newhart

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Maxwell, William

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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 smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Thomas Szasz

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Lao-Tzu

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

Fielding, Henry

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

George Burns

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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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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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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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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Chambers, Oswald

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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''

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Mahatma Gandhi