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

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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

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

Jackson, Holbrook

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Stossel, John

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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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 that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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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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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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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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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, 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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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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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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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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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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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

George Burns

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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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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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