Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Happiness

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Orwell, George

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

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

Johnson, Samuel

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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

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

David Assael

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Kafka, Franz

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Greene, Graham

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Bob Newhart

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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.

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

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Epicurus

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

Boone, Daniel

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

Bono, Edward De

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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Maxwell, William

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Fielding, Henry

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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

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

Sokoloff, Boris

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

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

Storm Jameson

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

Solon

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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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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