Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Orwell, George

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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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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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

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

C. P. Snow

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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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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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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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.