Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Happiness

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

William Cowper

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

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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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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

George Burns

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

Ayn Rand

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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 serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Feather, William

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

39.

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

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

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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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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

Oscar Levant

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.