Top 100 The Happiest Quotes
#1. Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.
Honore De Balzac
#2. For right now, I still believe that college is what's going to make me the happiest girl.
Missy Franklin
#3. In all my years on earth, I have seen time and time again that those who are the happiest are those who have the courage to follow their hearts - to believe what otherwise would be unbelievable; to seek the light; to find the truth.
Michael McLean
#4. The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.
Louise Colet
#5. I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.
Bjorn Borg
#6. If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.
Anne Archer
#7. I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.
Etta James
#8. As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.
Joseph Addison
#9. A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
Jane Austen
#10. The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
Josh Billings
#11. The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
Thomas Jefferson
#12. As in, what makes you the happiest? You said you hate college. What makes peace in your heart? That's your passion.
Carolyn Brown
#13. The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
William Cowper
#14. The happiest thing that can be said about democracy ... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.
Harry Allen Overstreet
#15. The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.
Jamie Foxx
#16. The happiest people are the one who have mastered life's hardest lesson. They've learned how to let go,
Romina Russell
#17. The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'
Eric Sevareid
#18. The simplest of tasks can create the happiest of moments.
Briar Kit Esme
#19. The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!
W.S. Gilbert
#20. I can't believe how some of the most unfortunate people in the world can be the happiest.It's just so enlightening to me.
Ariana Grande
#22. The happiest people I know live lives that revolve around serving others, not themselves.
Tim Elmore
#23. It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.
Mickey Rourke
#24. I know that I'm the happiest of lovers ...
Max Frisch
#25. The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.
Sam Cawthorn
#26. It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.
Franklin Carmichael
#27. The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.
Harold S. Kushner
#28. I want to stay there. I don't want to go any further. I want to stay. I can't remember who it was - one of the poets, perhaps Tamundein - who said that all of our happiest hours must pass away at last, even those in which we believe we are unhappy.
Sofia Samatar
#29. The happiest people are not those who have the best things, but those who enjoy the life and get the most of it with what they have.
Pravin Agarwal
#30. All at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!
Frederick Franck
#31. Disneyland: The happiest place on earth...
...for its Board of Directors and stockholders.
Beryl Dov
#32. She felt the way she always did when she was traveling, as though she was enjoying the novelty but would be happiest when she could consider it all from the vantage point of home, with her suitcase unpacked ...
Anna Quindlen
#33. In this way Hassan lived the happiest of lives until he was overtaken by death, breaker of ties and destroyer of delights.
Ted Chiang
#34. No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and the fun. I feel the freest and the happiest there.
Candice Swanepoel
#35. If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
Desmond Tutu
#36. May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past. May your hands be forever clasped in friendship, and your hearts joined forever in love. To the bride and groom.
Tracy Brogan
#37. He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
Henry Ward Beecher
#38. When she spoke, Tom held his breath, so eagerly he listened; when she sang, he sat like one entranced. She touched his organ, and from that bright epoch even it, the old companion of his happiest hours, incapable as he had thought of elevation, began a new and deified existence.
Charles Dickens
#39. I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.
David Lynch
#40. I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence.
Michael J. Fox
#41. Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind.
Zig Ziglar
#42. The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.
John Stossel
#43. You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#44. I think the happiest time of my life was when I was in my late teens. I was a little bit of an it-girl. Making myself seen. And it was a wonderful time to be young.
Charlotte Rampling
#45. We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!
George H. W. Bush
#46. When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.
Fanny Kemble
#47. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
Timothy Dwight V
#48. Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.
Fred Rogers
#49. She loves the sun and the sea. She is her happiest there.
Helen Barolini
#50. The poor soul would have been 100 - if he'd lived another twelve years. Apparently he asked to be scattered over the place where he spent his happiest moments - but Bridget wasn't keen no having ash all over her duvet.
Bridget Golightly
#51. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents - the rest you let float by.
David Wroblewski
#52. Summer of 1967 was one of the happiest times of my life.
Ron Moody
#54. His wife might, I verily believe, be the very happiest woman the sun shines on
Charlotte Bronte
#55. Anyway, my ribs hurt like hell, my vision is still blurry from acceleration sickness, I'm really hungry, it'll be another 211 days before I'm back on Earth, and, apparently, I smell like a skunk took a shit on some sweat socks. This is the happiest day of my life.
Andy Weir
#57. When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.
Tony Robbins
#58. Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. ... Would you make more time for those people?
Ariel Garten
#59. At the end of the day, my natural habitat is in a car and I am happiest in that environment.
Maria De Villota
#60. The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.
William Proxmire
#61. I was married then. I was the happiest of the happy. - Esther Summerson
Charles Dickens
#62. A scientist should be the happiest of men.
George Wald
#63. People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.
Mike Rowe
#64. The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.
Aristotle.
#65. My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
Flip Wilson
#66. Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#67. I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.
FKA Twigs
#68. I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.
Rick Astley
#69. The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.
Matt Groening
#70. I am happiest when I am working though, when I am being creative. I realized at a very young age what I loved doing. I think it is so important for people to pursue the things that they love and not give up on their dreams.
Josh Peck
#71. Road accidents, psycho killings, plane crashes abound - we don't know which day will be our last, so why not make today the happiest day and be thankful for all that we have?
Maddy Malhotra
#72. The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will.
R.T. Kendall
#73. 'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.
George Lucas
#74. It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from the past will come pushing up and demand to be noticed.
Sylvia Fraser
#75. And when you're a weird and awkward and paranoid person at all times, CastieCon is the happiest place on the planet.
It's like, a baseline level of freakiness is expected here, right? So unless you're disemboweling goats in the vendor hall, no one gives a damn who you are or what you're doing.
J.C. Lillis
#76. I am the happiest writing and being with the people I love.
Richard Flanagan
#77. As it's often been said, the rest of your life is the best of your life. I'm reaching for your hand now to help you reassess your attitude on living and jump into the happiest, healthiest, most productive years you will ever have.
Jack LaLanne
#78. Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.
Jane Austen
#80. The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
#81. You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.
Gil Scott-Heron
#82. Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#83. But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through life propelled by a commitment.
Alan Loy McGinnis
#84. I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least. I have also found that few things, if any, are capable of making one so blind and narrow as race prejudice.
Booker T. Washington
#85. A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate.
Conan O'Brien
#86. Once upon a time.. you were the happiest person ... and then you fell in love ...
Himmilicious
#87. I was the happiest man in the world, happier than Bill Gates
Tamim Iqbal
#88. When I draw the scene that I'd been dreaming about or had always wanted to draw, that is the time that I'm happiest.
Tite Kubo
#89. The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.
Robert Baden-Powell
#90. Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#91. I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.
Fennel Hudson
#92. I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.
Bobby Orr
#93. Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around for a free gift.
Craig Brown
#94. I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
Thomas Jefferson
#95. I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried.
Shelley Hennig
#96. Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.
Daisaku Ikeda
#97. I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.
Mohammed Daoud Khan
#98. Do you think Lee's all right?'
'I'm praying my ass off.'
At that moment came the happiest sight I'd ever seen. A thin hand appeared out of the shovel, made a V sign or a peace sign-it was hard to tell in the dimness-and disappeared again.
John Marsden
#99. I WOKE the next morning with a silly smile on my face. Like Donna Fargo, I was the "Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A." even though I was still "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed.
Nick Wilgus
#100. Tea! Thou soft, thou sober,
sage and venerable liquid ...
to whose glorious insipidity,
I owe the happiest moments of my life,
let me fall prostrate.
Colley Cibber
