Category: Quotes About Happiness

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. -Gustave Flaubert

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men. -David O. McKay

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. -Rosalia de Castro

One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out…

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race. -David Wilmot

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed. -Rush Limbaugh

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits. -Anna Pavlova

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind. -James Payn

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is. -Alanis Morissette

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. -Rutherford B. Hayes

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness. -William Law

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. -Francis Hutcheson

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

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. -Arthur Rimbaud

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

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? -Margaret Oliphant

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. -James Smithson

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. -Virginia Woolf

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. -Matthew Arnold

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. -Maurice Maeterlinck

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. -Plato