Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

James Oppenheim

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Chuck Sigars

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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Seneca

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Ketchel, Holly

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thomas Szasz

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing