Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Alcott, Louisa May

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

Billings, Josh

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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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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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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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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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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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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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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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Meredith, Owen

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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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

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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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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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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Horton, Doug