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

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

Zee, James Van Der

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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

Addison, Joseph

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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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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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

Hoffer, Eric

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Confucius

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

John Berry

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael