Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Happiness

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

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.

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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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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

Bob Newhart

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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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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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 pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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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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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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

Diderot, Denis

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Chuck Sigars

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Rooney, Andy

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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

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

Oscar Levant

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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.