983 private quotes tagged happiness

“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” — Henry Ford

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“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” — Edmund Burke

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“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.” — Samuel Johnson

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“A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.” — George Eliot

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“Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.” — Samuel Johnson

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“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.” — Alice Meynell

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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.” — Logan P. Smith

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“Happiness is no laughing matter.” — Richard Whately

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“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.” — James Madison

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“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.” — Aristotle

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“The will of man is his happiness.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.” — Sophocles

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“In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.” — Franz Kafka

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“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.” — Max Planck

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“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.” — Henry David Thoreau

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