Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Fichte, Johann G.

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Thomas Szasz

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.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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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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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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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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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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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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

David Assael

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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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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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre