Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

- Porter, Jane

Best Quotes about Happiness

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Robert Frost

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Bob Newhart

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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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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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

James Oppenheim

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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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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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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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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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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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Ann Radcliffe

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard