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

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

Stossel, John

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

Ayn Rand

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Russell, Bertrand

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

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

Billings, Josh

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Santayana, George

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Kant, Immanuel

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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

King, Coretta Scott

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

Prevert, Jacques

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Happiness seems made to be shared.

Corneille, Pierre

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Camus, Albert

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Jackson, Holbrook

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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

James, William

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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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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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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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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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Twain, Mark

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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 lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Sade, Marquis De

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Boone, Daniel

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

Rohn, Jim

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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

42.

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P.

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

Epictetus

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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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Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eddie Cantor

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.