Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Happiness

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

Lincoln, Abraham

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

12.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

David Assael

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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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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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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

James Oppenheim

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Herold, Don

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

John Berry

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker