Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Roy M. Goodman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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

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

Josh Billings

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.

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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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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

Heywood, John

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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 activity.

Aristotle

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

Epicurus

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.

Johnson, Samuel

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Smith, Adam

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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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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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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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 harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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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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The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Jonathan Haidt

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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 best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Goodman, Roy