Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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

Mason, John L.

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Carnegie, Dale

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Stein, Ben

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

Nielsen, A.

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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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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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Lucian

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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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

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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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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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