Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Mason, John L.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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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 not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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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 a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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