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

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Nielsen, A.

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Dalai Lama

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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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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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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

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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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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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Roy M. Goodman