Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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

Aristotle

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Ann Radcliffe

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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 true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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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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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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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 adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg