Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Yeats, William Butler

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Feather, William

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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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

Josh Billings

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.

Buckrose, J.E

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

Abraham Lincoln

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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... 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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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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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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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 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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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 isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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

Fielding, Henry

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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!