Quotes about Pursuit of Happiness
I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
— Soren Kierkegaard
No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
— Glenn Beck
Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it.
— Anonymous
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.[Eddie Scissons]
— WP Kinsella
The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.
— Andrew Carnegie
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
— Samuel Johnson
There is no shame in preferring happiness.
— Albert Camus
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
— Robert Frost
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
— Epicurus