Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Happiness

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Prutz

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

James Oppenheim

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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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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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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

Rooney, Andy

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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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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Epictetus

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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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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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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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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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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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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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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 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