Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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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Best Quotes about Happiness

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

Baughan, R.J.

Where one is wise two are happy.

Proverb

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Maurier, Daphne Du

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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

John Berry

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bob Newhart

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

Meredith, Owen

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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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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Buchan, John

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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ketchel, Holly

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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

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Solon

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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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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Prazlin, Duchess

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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

Christopher Morley

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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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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Hume, David

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Herold, Don

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Publilius Syrus

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Happiness is activity.