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  Like most circular disprovable hypothesis this is also probably false.  It is intellectually identical to something like "god".  
  Beyond that trap, you can certainly point to depressed people who relieve misery of the deepest level bit only to make things tolerable.  They find no happiness, and don't think it even a possibility.  If you don't believe happiness can exist for you generally or experiential then it can't motivate you.
  Or...you can look at it as a consequence not a motivator.  I would stop a bullet from hitting my child even if it made me sad.  It just happens that it wouldn't.  It is not the motivator, just a consequence of following and achieving you more root motivation.
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