Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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.

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

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''

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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

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

Prutz

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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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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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 the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Rooney, Andy

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

William Cowper

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

James Oppenheim

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Ketchel, Holly