Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Rooney, Andy

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

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

John Berry

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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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 requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

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

The laws of Manu

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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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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Horton, Doug

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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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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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.