Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

- Rooney, Andy

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Prutz

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

Stossel, John

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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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

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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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 smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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

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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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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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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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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh