Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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.

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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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

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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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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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

Horton, Doug

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Proust, Marcel

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

Nielsen, A.

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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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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Hoffer, Eric

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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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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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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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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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.