Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Prutz

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Ayn Rand

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

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

William Cowper

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

Maxwell, William

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

Oscar Levant

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lao-tzu

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Nash, Ogden

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Solon

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder