Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

George Burns

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

Ketchel, Holly

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

Saroyan, William

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

Camus, Albert

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

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Buchan, John

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James Oppenheim

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Lao-tzu

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

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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 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

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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... 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 the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark