Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

- Chambers, Oswald

Best Quotes about Happiness

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Democritus

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

William Cowper

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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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 not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Hoffer, Eric

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horton, Doug

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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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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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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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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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne