Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

- Rohr, Richard

Best Quotes about Happiness

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

Boyd, William

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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

Millman, Dan

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

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

William Cowper

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

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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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Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Schachtel, Rabbi H.

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

Sarnoff, David

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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Herold, Don

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Greene, Graham

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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

Stossel, John

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

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

Bradley, Amanda

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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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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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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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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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

George Burns

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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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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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon