Motivational Quotes

Happiness

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

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

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

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

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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 consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

Bono, Edward De

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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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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

Wilde, Oscar

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, 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.

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

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Ann Radcliffe

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von