Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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

Bono, Edward De

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

J.K. Rowling

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

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Mason, John L.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Fountain., John

13.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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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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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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

Herold, Don

19.

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Cloete, Stuart

21.

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

22.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

23.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

24.

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

Bob Newhart

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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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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Camus, Albert

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

Hoffer, Eric

31.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

32.

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

34.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

40.

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Al Batt

43.

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

44.

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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

Dalai Lama

46.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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