Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

- Palmer, Gretta Brooker

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Epictetus

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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

Bentham, Jeremy

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Robert Frost

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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 arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Bono, Edward De

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Feather, William

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

Oliphant, Margaret

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Lao-Tzu

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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 bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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