Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

- Apollinaire, Guillaume

Best Quotes about 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

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

J.K. Rowling

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

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

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Confucius

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

13.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

14.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

15.

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

16.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

17.

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

Orwell, George

18.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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

Addison, Joseph

20.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

22.

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

23.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

24.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

25.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

26.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

27.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

28.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

30.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

31.

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

32.

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)

33.

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

34.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

35.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

36.

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

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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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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

40.

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

Kin Hubbard

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

43.

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

44.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

45.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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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 who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Barrie, Sir James M.