Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Chambers, Oswald

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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

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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 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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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Diderot, Denis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Christopher Morley

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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 a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Clyde, R.D.

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

C. P. Snow

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

Bradley, Amanda

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda