Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

Best Quotes about Happiness

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Rohn, Jim

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Dewey, John

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

Fielding, Henry

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Cloete, Stuart

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Caron, Leslie

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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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 journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Rohr, Richard

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Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

Ginott, Haim

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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 consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Joy comes from using your potential.

Schultz, Will

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The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Beckett, Samuel

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Democritus

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Meltzer, Bernard

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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Chuang Tzu

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

Roy M. Goodman

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Proust, Marcel

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Chalmers, Allan K.

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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Herold, Don

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

William Cowper

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

Bono, Edward De

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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

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

Rooney, Andy

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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Russell, Bertrand

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Waitley, Denis

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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