Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

David Assael

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

Bob Newhart

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

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

C. P. Snow

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

10.

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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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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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

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

Clyde, R.D.

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.