Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Happiness

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

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

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

Johnson, Samuel

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Orwell, George

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

George Burns

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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

Fielding, Henry

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Buchan, John

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

Stein, Ben

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

Bradley, Amanda

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.