Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Happiness

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Diderot, Denis

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

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

George Burns

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

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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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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If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

Prutz

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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Walters, J. Donald

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Herold, Don

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness

Orwell, George

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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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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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

Wolfe, W, Beran

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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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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 consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Mason, John L.

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Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Epicurus

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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

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

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

James, William

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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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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 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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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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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous