Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Meltzer, Bernard

Best Quotes about Happiness

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Epicurus

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Rooney, Andy

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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Muller, Max

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

32.

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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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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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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