Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Happiness

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Herold, Don

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

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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

Democritus

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Ann Radcliffe

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

C. P. Snow

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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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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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 smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Bono, Edward De

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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

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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

Diderot, Denis

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

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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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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.