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

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

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

Storm Jameson

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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.

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Saroyan, William

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Diderot, Denis

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Horton, Doug

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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 not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama