Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Happiness

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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

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

Millman, Dan

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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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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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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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 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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rooney, Andy

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Herold, Don

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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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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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Confucius

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

Feather, William

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer