Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

- Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bradley, Amanda

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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

14.

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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Mason, John L.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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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 loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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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 is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Prutz

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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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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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles 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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

George Burns

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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 lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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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.