Happiness Quotes

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

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.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

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.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.