Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Rockefeller, John D.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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 the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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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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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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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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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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David