Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The happier the moment the shorter.

- Pliny The Elder

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Buchan, John

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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

Landor, Walter Savage

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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 is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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

Stossel, John

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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

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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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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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

Solon

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

Oscar Levant

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas