Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Bob Newhart

Best Quotes about Happiness

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Camus, Albert

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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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

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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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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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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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

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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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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Democritus

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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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