Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Mason, John L.

Best Quotes about Happiness

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Greene, Graham

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Jackson, Holbrook

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bentham, Jeremy

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Herold, Don

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Camus, Albert

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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!

Gilfillan, Robert

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Solon

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Confucius

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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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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 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

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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 secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.