Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Lao-Tzu

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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

William Cowper

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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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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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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

Kin Hubbard

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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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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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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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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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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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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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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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 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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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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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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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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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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 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