Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

- Adler, Fred

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

Horton, Doug

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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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 neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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

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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

Greene, Graham

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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

Alda, Alan

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

Clyde, R.D.

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Mason, John L.

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

Jackson, Holbrook

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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Szasz, Thomas

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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