Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

- Proverb, Russian

Best Quotes about Happiness

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Addison, Joseph

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

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

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

James Oppenheim

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

Nielsen, A.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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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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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Stein, Ben

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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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

The laws of Manu

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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 is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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

John Berry

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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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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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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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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

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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.