Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Nielsen, A.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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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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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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