Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Rubinstein, Arthur

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Ketchel, Holly

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

Marden, Orison Swett

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

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

Keyes Jr., Ken

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Bradley, Amanda

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 a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Ayn Rand

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Proverb, English

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

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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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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

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Baruch Spinoza

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Spencer, Herbert

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

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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 does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Rubin, Theodore I.

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

Curtis, George William

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The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The laws of Manu

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

Clyde, R.D.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

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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 includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Farrall, Joseph

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The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

Johnson, Samuel

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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Macewan, Norman

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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

Prevert, Jacques

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Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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

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Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Keller, Helen

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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Tillotson, John

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Rooney, Andy

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

Mason, John L.