Motivational Quotes

Happiness

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

- Watson, Lilian Eichler

Best Quotes about Happiness

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Lane, Rose Wilder

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Proverb, Hasidic

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

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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

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

Byron, Lord

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

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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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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Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Sokoloff, Boris

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rooney, Andy

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Yeats, William Butler

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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Brande, Dorothea

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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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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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

Gilfillan, Robert

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Millman, Dan

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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Fountain., John

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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Peggy Orenstein

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

Goodman, Roy

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

Bob Newhart

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

Levenson, Samuel

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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Waitley, Denis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

David Assael

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

Camus, Albert

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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus

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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Jung, Carl

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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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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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

Josh Billings

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