Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

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

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

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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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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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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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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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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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Saroyan, William

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

Prutz

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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

Bono, Edward De

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Democritus

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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