Famous Happiness Quotes - Famous Quotes about Happiness
(Happiness is ) the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- John F. Kennedy
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A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
- Cicero
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A man doesn't know what hapiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. -- (The Joker is Wild, 1957)
- Frank Sinatra
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
- Anatole France
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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
- Ayn Rand
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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
- John Gunther
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All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
- Spike Milligan
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
- Plutarch
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- C. S. Lewis
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
- Maxim Gorky
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Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense -- adapting one-self to circumstances -- and a sense of humor.
- Beatrice Lillie
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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
- Euripides
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
- Don Marquis
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Happiness is the longing for repetition.
- Milan Kundera
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Happiness, to some elation;
Is to others, mere stagnation.
- Amy Lowell
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.
- Amy Lowell
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I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
- J. D. Salinger
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
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I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.
- Werner Herzog
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
- Bertrand Russell
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In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness you send out for it.
- Rex Reed
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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
- Kin Hubbard
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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
- Alan Alda
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Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
- Artemus Ward
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
- Bertrand Russell
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Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
- Anonymous
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Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
- Spike Milligan
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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
- Charles Schulz
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
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No one is happy all his life long.
- Euripides
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
- Rita Mae Brown
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One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
- Bertrand Russell
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Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
- Aeschylus
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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
- Georges Bataille
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
- Hosea Ballou
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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.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain
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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
- Bertrand Russell
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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
- William Saroyan
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The greatest pleasure of life is love.
- Euripides
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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
- Agatha Christie
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The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.
- Louis-Ferdinand Destouches
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The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
- Robert Baden-Powell
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
- Carl Sandburg
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
- Marguerite Gardiner Blessington
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
- Gustave Flaubert
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
- Bertrand Russell
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Unhappiness remembering happiness.
- Euripides
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We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
- Willie Nelson
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
- Margaret Oliphant
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When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
- Edward Frederic Benson
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.
- Gertrude Stein
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You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've gained weight.
- Christy Turlington
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