Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Happiness

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Stossel, John

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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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.

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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 secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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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

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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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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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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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

William Cowper

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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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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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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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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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Confucius

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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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

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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

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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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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam