Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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

Kin Hubbard

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brande, Dorothea

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

Rooney, Andy

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Camus, Albert

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Maxwell, William

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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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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Bono, Edward De

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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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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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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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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 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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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 really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Ketchel, Holly

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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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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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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 good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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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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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle