Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

Aristotle

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Camus, Albert

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

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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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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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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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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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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

Ayn Rand

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Clyde, R.D.

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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

Confucius

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cloete, Stuart

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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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 loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.