Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Happiness

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Oprah Winfrey

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 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

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

Fielding, Henry

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Nash, Ogden

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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 a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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 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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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 having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Smith, Adam

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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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 biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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

Goodman, Roy

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von