Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

- Ginott, Haim

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Landor, Walter Savage

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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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 is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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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 happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Horton, Doug

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

Nielsen, A.

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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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

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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

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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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

Heywood, John

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Christopher Morley