Happiness Quotes
- Page 9There 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.
Chanakya
This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
Michael Korda
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Ernie Banks
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.
Omar Bongo
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
W. Somerset Maugham
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
William Samuel Johnson
Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
K. D. Lang
I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
Chris Evans
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis
I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.
Jared Harris
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Dale Carnegie
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
Charles Baudelaire
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
Joseph Butler
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke