Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Alda, Alan

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Kant, Immanuel

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Oscar Levant

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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 consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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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 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 is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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

Democritus

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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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