Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Happiness

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Camus, Albert

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Nash, Ogden

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

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

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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

Oscar Levant

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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 an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Camus, Albert

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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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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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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

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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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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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