Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

- Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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.

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Hoffer, Eric

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

David Assael

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Bob Newhart

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

Hesse, Hermann

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Solon

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horton, Doug

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

Orwell, George

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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 radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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