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

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

2.

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

3.

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

4.

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

Oliphant, Margaret

5.

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

6.

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

Yeats, William Butler

7.

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

Solon

8.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

9.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

10.

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

Bob Newhart

11.

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

12.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

13.

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

14.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

15.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

16.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

17.

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Lao-Tzu

19.

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

20.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

21.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

22.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

23.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

24.

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

25.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

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

Garrison, Theodosia

27.

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

28.

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

Al Batt

29.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

30.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

31.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

32.

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

Orwell, George

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Josh Billings

35.

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

36.

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

37.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

38.

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.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

40.

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

Lucian

41.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Horton, Doug

43.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

44.

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

Goodman, Roy

45.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

46.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

47.

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

48.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

49.

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