Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Epictetus

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Robert Frost

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

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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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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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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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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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.