Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

- Lucian

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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.

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ketchel, Holly

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Diderot, Denis

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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 happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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