Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Clyde, R.D.

Best Quotes about Happiness

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

David Assael

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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

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

Zee, James Van Der

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Muller, Max

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

42.

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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

Christopher Morley

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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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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 comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Addison, Joseph

49.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob