Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Fichte, Johann G.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Epictetus

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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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

Rooney, Andy

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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

Roy M. Goodman

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

Ketchel, Holly

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

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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