Motivational Quotes

Happiness

We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Ann Radcliffe

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Lao-tzu

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston