Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

- Adler, Fred

Best Quotes about Happiness

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Barrie, Sir James M.

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

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

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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 a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Lao-Tzu

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Prazlin, Duchess

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Horton, Doug

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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

Clyde, R.D.

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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

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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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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Tozer, A. W.

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Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

Johnson, Samuel

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

James Oppenheim

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Goodman, Roy

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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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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

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

Prevert, Jacques

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Hope, Bob

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

Stein, Ben