Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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.

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

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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 the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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

Prutz

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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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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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

Nicole Kidman

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Muller, Max

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Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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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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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Cloete, Stuart

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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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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 bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry

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