Happiness Quotes

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

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

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

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

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.

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.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

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