Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

Kennedy, John F.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

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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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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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

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

Nielsen, A.

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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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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Horace

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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.

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

Robert Frost

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Camus, Albert

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

Anderson, Greg

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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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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.