Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Nicole Kidman

Best Quotes about Happiness

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

James Oppenheim

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

Proverb, Scottish

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Horton, Doug

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Herold, Don

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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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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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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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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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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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

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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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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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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

Cloete, Stuart

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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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.