"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most,it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."
William Wordsworth
130 Top-Notch Quotes about Happiness
"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
(18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] – 13 December 1784) often referred to as Dr Johnson, was a British author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer,
editor and lexicographer.
"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
Scottish proverb
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"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
Gustave Flaubert
(December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists.
"Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible."
Marcel Proust
(10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic and essayist.
"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."
John Dewey
(October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophy of pragmatism
and of functional psychology.
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
Socrates
(c. 469 BC–399 BC) was a Classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.
"Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years."
Warren Edward Buffett
(born August 30, 1930) is an American investor, industrialist, and philanthropist. He is one of the most successful investors in the world. Often called the "legendary investor Warren Buffett", he is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people, he was ranked as the world's second wealthiest person in 2009 and is currently the third wealthiest person in the world as of 2010.
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
Edith Wharton born Edith Newbold Jones
(January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.
"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling."
Samuel Johnson
(18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] – 13 December 1784) often referred to as Dr Johnson, was a British author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."
Carl Gustav Jung
(26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology.
