Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

George Burns

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

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

Garrison, Theodosia

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Bono, Edward De

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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The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

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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... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Grayson, David

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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

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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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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

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Bentham, Jeremy

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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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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Proverb, Russian

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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Billings, Josh

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Maurier, Daphne Du

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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

Hume, David

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Christopher Morley

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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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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Sondreal, Palmer

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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Russell, Bertrand

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

William Cowper

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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

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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry