Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

- Tillotson, John

Best Quotes about Happiness

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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.

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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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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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Ketchel, Holly

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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 is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 activity.

Aristotle

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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 a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Oscar Levant

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

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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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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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

George Burns

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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 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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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Freud, Sigmund