Happy Quotes

"I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves"

Teri Garr, Actress

"I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?"

Jay-Z, Musician

"If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters"

Robin Wright Penn, Actress

"The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials"

Cynthia Nelms, Author

"I was happy she got it and I have to sort of - and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work"

Nia Long, Actress

"Having a great intellect is no path to being happy"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined"

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving"

Liza Minnelli, Actress

"If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed"

James Buchanan, President

"Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989"

Nadia Comaneci, Athlete

"Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter"

Paul Klee, Artist

"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, Novelist

"There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!"

Joan Chen, Actress

"I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need"

Uma Thurman, Actress

"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy"

John Burroughs, Author

"I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself"

Black Elk, Leader

"I never could be good when I was not happy"

Julia Ward Howe, Activist

"I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose"

Joely Fisher, Actress

"But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me"

Dinah Sheridan, Actress

"I mean, I can actually say goodbye to the game of golf, never hit another golf shot the rest of my life and I'd be happy because I can get back in life without any rotation"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy"

Julia Ward Howe, Activist

"I enjoy working with Melissa a great deal. We're always looking for projects to do together. I was happy to have her do the show, because she doesn't normally do episodic unless she's starring, and I was very happy with the results"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again"

A. E. Housman, Poet

"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking"

A. A. Milne, Author

"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy"

Guillaume Apollinaire, Novelist

"I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales"

Mike Myers, Comedian