Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Alda, Alan

Best Quotes about Happiness

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Stein, Ben

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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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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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erikson, Erik H.

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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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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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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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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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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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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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.

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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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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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.