Motivational Quotes

Happiness

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

- Chalmers, Allan K.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

The laws of Manu

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Richter, Jean Paul

11.

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Zee, James Van Der

17.

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, 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 depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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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 only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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