Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- James Oppenheim

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Ketchel, Holly

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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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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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Prutz

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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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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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

23.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Goodman, Roy

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Dalai Lama

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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 happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Rooney, Andy

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.