Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Jefferson, Thomas

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Al Batt

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

John Berry

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Oscar Levant

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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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

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

David Assael

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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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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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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 comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De