Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Happiness

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Confucius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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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

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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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.

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

Bono, Edward De

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Feather, William

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

Herold, Don

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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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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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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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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Dyer, Wayne

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Dalai Lama

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle