Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Camus, Albert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Orwell, George

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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 cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Oscar Levant

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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 not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand