Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

- Farrall, Joseph

Best Quotes about Happiness

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

George Burns

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Jonathan Haidt

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.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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

Democritus

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Aristotle

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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

Goodman, Roy

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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

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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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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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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Doris Lessing

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

Bono, Edward De

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.