Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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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 lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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

Bob Newhart

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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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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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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 agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

Cloete, Stuart

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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