Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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

Yeats, William Butler

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Diderot, Denis

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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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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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Kin Hubbard

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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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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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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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George