Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Clyde, R.D.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Thomas Szasz

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

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

David Assael

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Prutz

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Heywood, John

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Greene, Graham

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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