Motivational Quotes

Happiness

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Happiness

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Sweetland, Ben

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Chopra, Deepak

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

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

William Cowper

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

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Douglas, Norman

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Cloete, Stuart

10.

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

Solon

11.

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bono, Edward De

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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

15.

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

Watson, Lilian Eichler

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

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Strindberg, J. August

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Kingsley, Charles

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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

27.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

28.

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

29.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Snow, C(harles) P(ercy)

30.

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

31.

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

Josh Billings

32.

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

35.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Greene, Graham

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

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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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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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

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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

48.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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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

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Roosevelt, Eleanor