Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Muller, Max

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

18.

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

Jonathan Haidt

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Stossel, John

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Cloete, Stuart

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

George Burns

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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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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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Fielding, Henry

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu