Famous Quotes & Sayings

F. H. Bradley

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Ezra Taft Benson

If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word [of honor] is God in man."

Ezra Taft Benson

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

Eugene O'Neill

Happiness hates the timid. So does science.

Eugene O'Neill

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Euripides

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Euripides

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Francis of Assisi

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Francis Bacon

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Francis Bacon

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Francis Bacon

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

I wanted to be around a 4:50, but I was happy with this. Sometimes (being pushed) helps me. I probably could have used it today.

I've got no tears of disappointment from tonight. But I don't have any tears of happiness either.

Mel Stottlemyre

I'm leaving happy. It may not sound like I am. Zimmer didn't leave happy. In that sense it's much different.

I'm pleased that I won, ... I'm very happy.

I'm proud of how they're doing. They have stepped up and I'm happy they are doing that.

I'm just really happy I can be a part of this.

I'm just not happy with the way I played.

I'm just not a very happy person during the season. I'm not a very satisfied person.

I'm just happy we went out there and got our rings.

Sol Campbell

I'm just happy to get in there and start playing.

I'm just happy to be on his team.

Miguel Cairo

I'm just happy to be back in pinstripes.

I'm just doing what makes me happy. I've done a lot and seen a lot. Now I'm just doing what I'm passionate about.

Ernest Holmes

Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.

Ernest Holmes

The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness.

Erma Bombeck

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Erma Bombeck

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Florence Henderson

It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again.

Florence Scovel Shinn

You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.

Florence Nightingale

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Flannery O'Connor

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

Flannery O'Connor

I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas.