Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

Rohn, Jim

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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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

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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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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Herold, Don

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Prutz

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Lao-tzu

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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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 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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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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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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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