Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Epictetus

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

Prutz

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

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Fielding, Henry

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Horton, Doug

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

10.

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

11.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

12.

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

Stossel, John

13.

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.

Binstock, Louis

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

15.

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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Happiness is activity.

Aristotle

17.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C. P. Snow

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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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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Lawana Blackwell

20.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

George Burns

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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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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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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

28.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

Hesse, Hermann

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

31.

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

Herold, Don

32.

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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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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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

35.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Addison, Joseph

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Oliphant, Margaret

40.

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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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Montesquieu, Charles De