Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

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

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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

Maxwell, William

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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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

George Burns

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

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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

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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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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Garrison, Theodosia

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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 a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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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 in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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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 only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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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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Call no man unhappy until he is married.

Socrates

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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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 Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak