Happiness Quotes (2906)
Quotes and citations about happiness
I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it... view
By: Corrine Brown
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort... view
By: Helen Gurley Brown
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it... view
By: James Brown
The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs... view
By: Jerry Brown
Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all... view
By: Jerry Brown
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose... view
By: John Mason Brown
I listen to some of the comments on WIP - they're playing parts of the press conference - and I can see where people would read into things. But if anyone was at the press conference, I think would sense how much I enjoyed Philly and how I loved working for those people... view
By: Larry Brown
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future... view
By: Norman O. Brown
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors... view
By: Olympia Brown
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory... view
By: Rita Mae Brown
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it... view
By: Rita Mae Brown
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery... view
By: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get... view
By: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own... view
By: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost... view
By: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it... view
By: Jackson Browne
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!.. view
By: Robert Browning
For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband... view
By: Tammy Bruce
Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history... view
By: John Bruton
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future... view
By: Jean de la Bruyere
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone... view
By: Jean de la Bruyere
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us... view
By: Jean de la Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates... view
By: Jean de la Bruyere
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment... view
By: William Jennings Bryan
None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life... view
By: William Jennings Bryan
I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting... view
By: Bill Bryson
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever... view
By: Peabo Bryson
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness... view
By: John Buchan
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it... view
By: Pearl S. Buck
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind... view
By: Pearl S. Buck
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth... view
By: Pearl S. Buck
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness... view
By: Pearl S. Buck
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations... view
By: James L. Buckley
Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town... view
By: Zola Budd
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him... view
By: Buddha
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them... view
By: Buddha
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him... view
By: Buddha
The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice... view
By: Bill Budge
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another... view
By: Eustace Budgell
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too... view
By: Frederick Buechner
Other authors in the same category
- Samuel Johnson
- Bertrand Russell
- Helen Keller
- Thomas Traherne
- Khalil Gibran
- Aldous Huxley
- Jean Paul
- Dale Carnegie
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- Joseph Butler
- Polly Toynbee
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- William Blake
- Josh Billings
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Victor Hugo
- Benjamin Franklin
- Richard Bach
- Gustave Flaubert
- Thomas Carlyle
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Samuel Butler
- Logan P. Smith
- Mark Twain
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Darrell Royal
- George Santayana
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Joseph Addison
- William Feather
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Martin Yan
- Ambrose Bierce
- Lord Byron
- David Cameron