Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Nielsen, A.

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

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

Sokoloff, Boris

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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

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

John Berry

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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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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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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

Stein, Ben

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

Herold, Don

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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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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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

Al Batt

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Bob Newhart

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

Chuck Sigars

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

George Burns

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Stossel, John

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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 isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre