Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

- Alcott, Louisa May

Best Quotes about Happiness

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lao-Tzu

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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.

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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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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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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.

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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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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 not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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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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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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