Motivational Quotes

Happiness

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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

Johnson, Samuel

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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

Oscar Levant

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Democritus

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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

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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 cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

Kin Hubbard

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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

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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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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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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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 is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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

Orwell, George

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb