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

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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

Proust, Marcel

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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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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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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

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

Herold, Don

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

Dalai Lama

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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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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 does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Cloete, Stuart

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Nash, Ogden