Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.