Happiness
Definition: The state of being happy.
Number of Quotes: 19
The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
Anonymous
When you think about it, giving up your real
personality is a small price
to pay for the richness of living happily ever after
with an actual man!
Lynda Barry
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied
and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward de Bono
Those who won our independence ... believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis Brandeis
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The Sphere and Duties of Woman
George Burnap
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there
too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up, for ever, on my best affections. Deep affliction has but strengthened and refined them.
Charles Dickens
Action may not always bring happiness ... but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work,
pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support, and opens the way to wealth, honor, and happiness.
John Howe
To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition,
curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient - euphoria.
Anita Roddick
Happiness ... lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and
moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends.
Richard II
William Shakespeare
Oh! how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
As You Like It
William Shakespeare
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
Publilius Syrus
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Oscar Wilde
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