Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

- Ayn Rand

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Camus, Albert

10.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

11.

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.

12.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

13.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

14.

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

15.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

16.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

17.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

18.

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

Garrison, Theodosia

19.

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

20.

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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

23.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

24.

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

Orwell, George

25.

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

26.

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

27.

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

28.

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

Horace

29.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

30.

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

31.

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

32.

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

Lao-Tzu

33.

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

34.

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

Anderson, Greg

35.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

36.

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

Camus, Albert

37.

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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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

39.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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

43.

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

Dalai Lama

44.

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.

45.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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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

48.

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

Confucius

49.

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

50.

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