Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Happiness

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Saroyan, William

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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

Confucius

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

Rooney, Andy

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

George Burns

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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 greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Stossel, John

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von