Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Boone, Daniel

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Heywood, John

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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

Jean Houston

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Camus, Albert

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

Alda, Alan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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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''

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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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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.

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Rooney, Andy

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

David Assael

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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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.