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

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

10.

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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

19.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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 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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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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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Mason, John L.

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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 the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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

James Oppenheim

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Stossel, John

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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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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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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Josh Billings