Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Where one is wise two are happy.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cloete, Stuart

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

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

George Burns

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

Horton, Doug

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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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

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Democritus

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Lao-tzu

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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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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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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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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De