Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Garrison, Theodosia

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

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

William Cowper

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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.

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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 comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Stein, Ben

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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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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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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 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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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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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

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

James Oppenheim

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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