Motivational Quotes

Happiness

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Happiness

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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

James Oppenheim

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Heywood, John

Proverb, Chinese

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

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Greene, Graham

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Kin Hubbard

18.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

19.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

21.

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

Proverb, Spanish

22.

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

Stossel, John

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

Fielding, Henry

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

25.

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

27.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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

Feather, William

29.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

36.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

38.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Knuth, Don

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

Lubbock, Sir John

40.

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

41.

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Al Batt

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

Johnson, Samuel

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What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Nash, Fay B.

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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

47.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wilde, Oscar