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

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Goodman, Roy

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Benjamin Franklin

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

Epicurus

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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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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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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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Fielding, Henry

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dalai Lama

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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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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Jeans, Sir James

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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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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De