Happy Quotes

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.

I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.

My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

I want to work and be happy.

Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He doesn't have to squash mine.

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.

It's a tricky place, especially the last sector. I wasn't happy in practice. I wasn't happy with the car and I wasn't happy with myself. But I always thought there was more in the car.

From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

To be happy is, I guess, the most important thing in life.

The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.

Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.