Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Happiness

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Huxley, Aldous

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

Mason, John L.

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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 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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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Bob Newhart

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

Orwell, George

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

30.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Landor, Walter Savage

32.

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

33.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Addison, Joseph

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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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Byron, Lord

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

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus