Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- David Assael

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

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

Ketchel, Holly

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Democritus

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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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 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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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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 makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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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