Happiness Quotes

Happiness means quiet nerves.

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

No being can make another one happy.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

When you SEEK HAPPINESS for yourself, it will always elude you. When you seek happiness for OTHERS, you will find it yourself.

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.

Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

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.

He who is good is happy.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.

To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

Happiness often comes when least expected.

Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness - that happiness is a choice you make.

I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

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.

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace... a necessary step in the direction of peace for the world.

Every moment is a moment of happiness.

Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.

Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all those unforgiven, unforgotten past events. Let them go.

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.

It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.