Happiness Quotes - Page 2

You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you banish fear nothing terribly bad can happen to you.

Margaret Bourke-White

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When in fear it is safest to force the attack.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

William Jennings Bryan

Happiness lies first of all in health.

George William Curtis

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

What is the worth of anything But for the happiness 'twill bring?

Richard Owen Cambridge

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we suppose ourselves to be.

La Rochefoucauld

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

Margaret Oliphant

Everyone speaks of it few know it.

Mme. Jeanne P. Roland

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.

Euripides

Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

Albert Schweitzer

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.

If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased.

Katharine Hepburn

Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Elizabeth Clarke Dunn

Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again.

Life delights in life.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

If ignorance is bliss why aren't there more happy teenagers?

Anonymous

As the sergeant said to the recruit: "You might as well be happy mate - no one cares if you ain't."

I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.

Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.

When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.

I look better feel better make love better and I'll tell you something else ... I never lied better.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number.

Cesare Beccaria

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have.

Ken Keyes

Happiness is not the end of life character is.

Henry Ward Beecher

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Bernard de Fontenelle

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

My heart is like a singing bird.

Christina Georgina Tossetti

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care then the happiest individual... would be I think an American cow.

William Lyon Phelps

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Ayn Rand

When unhappy one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.

The more the heart is sated with joy the more it becomes insatiable.

The truth is laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought choked half strangled or surrendered to with humiliation.

Anne Rice

No man is happy unless he believes he is.

Publilius Syrus

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though t'were his own.

Johann von Goethe

Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Katharine Hepburn

We never enjoy perfect happiness our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

Pierre Corneille

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them.

We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

Colette

There are men who are happy without knowing it.

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

Emily Dickinson

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

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