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

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

Farrall, Joseph

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

Nielsen, A.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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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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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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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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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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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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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.