Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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 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

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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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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IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

Fountain., John

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Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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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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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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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Proverb, Scottish

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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

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

Goodman, Roy

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

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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

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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 radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand