Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

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

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

Josh Billings

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

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Horton, Doug

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

William Cowper

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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.

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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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The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

Kindleberger, J.

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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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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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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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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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

Nielsen, A.

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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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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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Waitley, Denis