Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Meltzer, Bernard

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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.

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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 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 greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cloete, Stuart

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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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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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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

Jeans, Sir James

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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 pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.