Happiness Quotes

Small: The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication
"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die"
Pierre de Coubertin, Leader
Small: The right to happiness is fundamental
Anna Pavlova
"The right to happiness is fundamental"
Anna Pavlova, Dancer
Small: Ive never felt like I was in the cookie business. Ive always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is t
Debbi Fields
"I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience"
Debbi Fields, Businesswoman
Small: Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men
"Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men"
David O. McKay, Clergyman
Small: Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humilit
"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful"
Irving Babbitt, Critic
Small: History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happ
"History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way"
Wendell Willkie, Lawyer
Small: Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be gover
"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
Small: An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the swe
"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, Dramatist
Small: Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let o
"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
Small: America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this b
Louis D. Brandeis
"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"
Louis D. Brandeis, Judge
Small: One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory
"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory"
Rita Mae Brown, Writer
Small: I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense
"I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change"
Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress
Small: I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely conten
"I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be"
Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress
Small: I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesnt promise you happiness and that everyt
"I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances"
Patricia Heaton, Actress
Small: Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms
"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment"
Irving Babbitt, Critic
Small: Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being a
"Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner"
James F. Cooper, Novelist
Small: No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange anothers happiness
"No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness"
Graham Greene, Playwright
Small: It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I
"It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic"
Robert Wyatt, Musician
Small: Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you it will never come. But if you pa
"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap"
William Bennett, Politician
Small: People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness
"People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness"
Lucinda Williams, Musician
Small: Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon
Billy Wilder
"Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon"
Billy Wilder, Director
Small: Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember th
"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own"
William E. Gladstone, Leader
Small: Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others
"Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others"
Henry Fielding, Novelist
Small: The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give
"The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give"
Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity
Small: It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law as
"It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us"
Jonathan Mayhew, Clergyman
Small: Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you wont have to hunt for happiness
"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness"
William E. Gladstone, Leader
Small: Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object
"Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object"
Hermann Hesse, Novelist
Small: Off with you! Youre a happy fellow, for youll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing be
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
Small: To be able to throw ones self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a womans smile
"To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness"
Hermann Hesse, Novelist
Small: Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind
"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind"
Daphne du Maurier, Novelist
Small: People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be
"People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next"
Chuck Norris, Actor
Small: A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness
Elsa Schiaparelli
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness"
Elsa Schiaparelli, Designer
Small: Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once t
Anna Pavlova
"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, Dancer
Small: You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she cant see what a
"You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me"
Vivien Leigh, Actress
Small: When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which
Anna Pavlova
"When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away"
Anna Pavlova, Dancer
Small: Worldly wealth is the Devils bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happine
"Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun"
Robert Burton
Small: Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye
Austin O'Malley
"Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye"
Austin O'Malley, Physicist
Small: The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others
"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others"
Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier
Small: The white mans happiness cannot be purchased by the black mans misery
"The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery"
Frederick Douglass, Author
Small: It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness
"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness"
Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman
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