Happiest Man Quotes

• It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.

  Louise DeSalvo

  Artist, Thinking, Tropic Of Cancer

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• The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Home, Men, Finding Happiness

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• Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.

  William James

  Failure, Men, Secret

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.129, Library of America

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• I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category.

  Jamie Farr

  Fall, Men, Judging

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

  Samuel Johnson

  Money, Men, Saving Money

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.216

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• He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Death, Men, Connections

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• Family is the most important thing in the world. If everything ended tomorrow and my family was still there, I'd be the happiest man alive.

  Landon Donovan

  Men, Important, Alive

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• I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

  Henry Miller

  Happiness, Money, Determination

  Henry Miller, Mary V. Dearborn (2007). “Crazy Cock”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.

  Theodore Martin

  Men, Elixir, Elixir Of Life

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• During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

  L. Frank Baum

  Heart, Loss, Men

  L. Frank Baum (2008). “7 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series, Volume 1 of 2. the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy”, p.24, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world

  Diego Maradona

  Running, Men, Balls

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• I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

  Thomas Browne

  Adversity, Men, Alive

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• like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Men, Alive

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.238, Canongate Books

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• 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

  Happiness, Wisdom, Humility

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• If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Happiness, Witty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Mind, Tasks

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Men

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• They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem.

  Tom Stoppard

  Men, Years, World

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• You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.

  Joe Nichols

  Men, Records, World

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• After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

  Lin Yutang

  Hero, Mean, Men

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• Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.

  Lionel Messi

  Son, Men, World

  "Lionel Messi welcomes baby boy as girlfriend Antonella Roccuzzo gives birth to second son" by Ed Malyon, www.mirror.co.uk. September 11, 2015.

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• If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

  James Buchanan

  Happiness, Country, Home

  1861 Said on welcoming his successor, Abraham Lincoln, to the White House.

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  "Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think".

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