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

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Yeats, William Butler

6.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

7.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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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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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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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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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

Cloete, Stuart

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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.

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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 is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

18.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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

Stein, Ben

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

Prevert, Jacques

23.

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

27.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

28.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

29.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Dalai Lama

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

40.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

41.

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

43.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

50.

Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will