Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Clyde, R.D.

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

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

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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 the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

David Assael

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Saroyan, William

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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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 is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

Nicole Kidman

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Cloete, Stuart

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.