Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

- Solon

Best Quotes about Happiness

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Huxley, Aldous

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Bentham, Jeremy

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Bob Newhart

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

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Byron, Lord

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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 not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William