Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Stein, Ben

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Johnson, Samuel

I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Frank, Anne

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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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.

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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

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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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

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Solon

36.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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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 is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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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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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

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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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