Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

- Stossel, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Cloete, Stuart

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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

William Cowper

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Orwell, George

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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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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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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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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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mason, John L.

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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

George Burns

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.