Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

- Boyd, William

Best Quotes about Happiness

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Millman, Dan

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

Aristotle

Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

The laws of Manu

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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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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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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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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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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

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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 two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.