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

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Alda, Alan

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Hoffer, Eric

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Black, Hugo

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cloete, Stuart

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fielding, Henry

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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

Horton, Doug

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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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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 isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.