Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

- Hume, David

Best Quotes about Happiness

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ketchel, Holly

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Robert Frost

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Nielsen, A.

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nicole Kidman

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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.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Chambers, Oswald

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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 depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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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