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

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

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

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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

Jonathan Haidt

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Porter, Jane

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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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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao-Tzu

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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

Mason, John L.

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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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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-tzu

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Prutz

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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 a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Diderot, Denis

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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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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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