Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

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Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Brande, Dorothea

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Greene, Graham

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Rohn, Jim

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

Boone, Daniel

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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The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Young, Margaret

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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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

Lao-Tzu

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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 absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

Muriel, James

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri 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

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

Zimbler, Adam

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Epictetus

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

Bono, Edward De

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