Famous Quotes
- The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
- William Morris on Happiness
- The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
- Arthur C. Brooks on Happiness
- The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Happiness
- The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin on Happiness
- The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
- Mortimer Adler on Happiness
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
- Hannah Arendt on Happiness
- The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
- William H. Seward on Happiness
- The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.
- David Wilmot on Happiness
- The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
- Frederick Douglass on Happiness
- The will of man is his happiness.
- Friedrich Schiller on Happiness
- The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
- Candace Bushnell on Happiness
- The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
- Ellen DeGeneres on Happiness
- The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
- Doug Larson on Happiness
- There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
- Charles Baudelaire on Happiness
- There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
- Mark Twain on Happiness
- There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
- Freya Stark on Happiness
- There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
- Francis Bacon on Happiness
- There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
- Francois Fenelon on Happiness
- There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
- There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.
- Thomas Hood on Happiness
- There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
- Jose Marti on Happiness
- There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford on Happiness
- There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
- There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.
- There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
- Maria Mitchell on Happiness
- There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.
- Deborah Norville on Happiness
- There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
- There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey on Happiness
- There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
- Benjamin Carson on Happiness
- There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
- Dante Alighieri on Happiness
- There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
- Anwar Sadat on Happiness
- There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
- Henry Drummond on Happiness
- There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
- Anthony Trollope on Happiness
- There is no happiness outside of ourselves.
- Bryant McGill on Happiness
- There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
- Samuel Johnson on Happiness
- There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
- Joyce Grenfell on Happiness
- There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
- Miguel De Unamuno on Happiness
- There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau on Happiness
- There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
- Alfred De Musset on Happiness
- There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
- Mary Wortley on Happiness
- There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
- Nelson Mandela on Happiness
- There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
- Samuel Johnson on Happiness
- There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
- Samuel Johnson on Happiness
- There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
- George Sand on Happiness
- There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
- Denis Diderot on Happiness
- There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
- Frederick Delius on Happiness
- There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
- Ogden Nash on Happiness
- There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
- Aldous Huxley on Happiness
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