Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

- Yeats, William Butler

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

The laws of Manu

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Schweitzer, Albert

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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 seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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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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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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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 lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

Chambers, Oswald

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Mason, John L.

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel