Motivational Quotes

Happiness

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

- Rockefeller, John D.

Best Quotes about Happiness

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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

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

Bono, Edward De

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

Farrall, Joseph

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

Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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 an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

Burroughs, John

18.

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

19.

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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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J.K. Rowling

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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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

Prevert, Jacques

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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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

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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Hazlitt, William

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

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Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

Walters, J. Donald

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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 journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Alcott, Louisa May

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

Stossel, John

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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.