Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Democritus

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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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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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 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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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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)

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Lao-Tzu

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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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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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Marden, Orison Swett