Motivational Quotes

Happiness

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

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

Meltzer, Bernard

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

The laws of Manu

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Marden, Orison Swett

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Proverb, Chinese

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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

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

Maxwell, William

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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

Fountain., John

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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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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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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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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Waitley, Denis

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

Nielsen, A.

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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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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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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.