Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Jeans, Sir James

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

Boone, Daniel

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

Orwell, George

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nash, Ogden

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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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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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

27.

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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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

Herold, Don

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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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 greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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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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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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