Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Maurier, Daphne Du

Best Quotes about Happiness

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Wilde, Oscar

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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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

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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 arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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

Kin Hubbard

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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 having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

34.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

Dalai Lama

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.