Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- The laws of Manu

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Zee, James Van Der

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

Orwell, George

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

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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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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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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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Feather, William

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Chuck Sigars

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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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

31.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Dalai Lama

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant