Happiness Quotes

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

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.

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

To me, the most important thing is happiness.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.