Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Goodman, Roy

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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 seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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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 comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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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 is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Jean Houston

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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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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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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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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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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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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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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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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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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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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

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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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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre