Famous Quotes & Sayings

They're very happy to hear from her -- jubilant, joyful.

Walt Kyle

You're never happy with a tie; you're trying to win. The reality is we have to come back and play tomorrow, and whatever the outcome tomorrow is, we have to come back and play again.

Dwayne Roloson

You're never happy when you lose. It's playoff hockey. You've got to win. We'll take it. We'll use it to our advantage. We'll be ready to go on Sunday.

Candace Bushnell

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.

This is a new one from a historical point of view. I am really very happy.

This is great, especially after struggling the last two years. It's happiness and relief all in one.

They have a track record of putting out happy numbers.

It seems to me that markets aren't going to be too happy if its just a replacement thing.

Hans Christian Andersen

Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.

Hans Christian Andersen

Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

Hans Christian Andersen

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

Greta Garbo

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.

The way to health, harmony, and happiness is primarily mental.

The habit of being uniformly considerate towards others will bring increased happiness to you.

Gretchen Rubin

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

Gretchen Rubin

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

Gretchen Rubin

Act the way you WANT to feel.

Gretchen Rubin

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.

Gretchen Rubin

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

Gordon B. Hinckley

What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.

Gordon B. Hinckley

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

Gladys Taber

Happiness is a thing of now.

Horace

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Herbert Spencer

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Herman Melville

Boy, take my advice, and never try to invent any thing but--happiness.

Herman Melville

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Henry David Thoreau

It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.

Henry David Thoreau

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.

Henry David Thoreau

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.