Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

- Muggeridge, Malcolm

Best Quotes about Happiness

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, 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

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Bob Newhart

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Christopher Morley

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

Oscar Levant

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

William Cowper

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

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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 is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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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.

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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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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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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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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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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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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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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.