Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is no getting around these essential ingredients: determination, effort and time. These are the real secrets to happiness.

Honore de Balzac

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

Honore de Balzac

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Honore de Balzac

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

Honore de Balzac

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

Honore de Balzac

The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.

Honore de Balzac

But does not happiness come from the soul within?

Robert Frost

Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length

Happiness just doesn't happen. You have to force yourself.

Michael Leunig

Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Dorothy Dix

Happiness is largely a matter of self-hypnotism. You can think yourself happy or you can think yourself miserable.

Mark Twain

Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it

Jonathan Swift

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

Francis Quarles

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.

Francis Quarles

In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.

Francis Quarles

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

Horace Walpole

I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.

Horace

You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death. [Lat., Non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum; rectius occupat Nomen beati, qui Deorum Muneribus sapienter uti, Duramque callet pauperiem pati, Pejusque leto flagitium timet.]

Sourav Ganguly

I am very happy to be back in the team like any other player would be in a similar situation. I am only hoping that we perform well in Pakistan.

Sourav Ganguly

I am very happy to be back in side just like any other player in a similar situation.

Guillermo Coria

I am very happy. It was a very tough match. It was hot again. That's the kind of tournament I need to get back to my perfect shape.

I am very happy for Jessie because she played very well (on Tuesday).

Marcos Baghdatis

I am very touched. I am very happy.

I am not happy. I said we needed to sell six million in three years, and we sold one-third of that. We need to make some changes.

Adnan Pachachi

I am overwhelmed with happiness and congratulate the Iraqi people.

I am not happy with the sticker price that we got. Part of the problem with that is, we haven't been able to reconcile those numbers.

Steve Alford

I couldn't be more happy or pleased for our seniors to go out this way.

I could be happy here. I really can.