Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

- Bentham, Jeremy

Best Quotes about Happiness

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

Horace

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

Confucius

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

Kin Hubbard

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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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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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Boone, Daniel

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

Szasz, Thomas

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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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: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Prutz

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

David Assael

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Christopher Morley

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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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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.