Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Muller, Max

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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

18.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Oscar Levant

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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 radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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

Billings, Josh

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart