Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Kundera, Milan

If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.

Heatter, Gabriel

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Bradley, Amanda

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

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

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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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

George Burns

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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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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For who is pleased with himself.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

Zee, James Van Der

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Boone, Daniel

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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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)