Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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 discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

Jeans, Sir James

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Nielsen, A.

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 is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Democritus

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It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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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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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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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

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Lao-tzu

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Prutz

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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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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 like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John