Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Boone, Daniel

Best Quotes about Happiness

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Millman, Dan

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

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

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Ziglar, Zig

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

Edwards, Tryon

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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 is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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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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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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

Clyde, R.D.

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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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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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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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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

Christopher Morley

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Bergson, Henri L.

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Oprah Winfrey

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The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Jeans, Sir James

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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

Upanishads, Veda

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Koenig, Frederick