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

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

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

James Oppenheim

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

Cloete, Stuart

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Proverb, Scottish

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

Benjamin Franklin

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Robert Frost

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