Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
— William E. Gladstone
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
— William Cowper
I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
— William Clay Ford, Jr.
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
— William Beveridge
My priority is my happiness.
— Willam Belli
I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.
— Wilbur Smith
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.
— Wendell Willkie
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
— Walter Savage Landor
The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
— Walter Annenberg
When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.
— W. Bruce Cameron
I think happiness is love.
— Vladimir Putin
Both my parents lived through a world war. My grandparents lived through two world wars. And they didn't go around saying, 'Look for happiness.'
— Viv Albertine
When I help people around me. It gives me immense happiness.
— Vishnu Vishal
America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.
— Virginia Postrel
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
— Viktor E. Frankl
If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.
— Viggo Mortensen
I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.
— Victoria Osteen
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
— William Butler Yeats
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
— William Bennett
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
— Willa Cather
But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.
— Wesley Schultz
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
— Wayne Gretzky
We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its new, albeit harsh, beauties, the sooner will each individual be able to find his own personal happiness. The distress of Germany will spiritualize and deepen us.
— Walter Gropius
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
— W. Somerset Maugham
We put each other's happiness before our own, so I would prefer that Spencer was super happy... So, like I always want him to be happy and he always wants me to be happy, which in turn, makes a very happy house.
— Vogue Williams
If my son came to me years from now and told me, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'That's wonderful. I'm so glad you know who you are.' But if he said, 'I want to be a woman,' I would say, 'Ahhh. This is gonna be hard. Let's get started.' Because it doesn't matter that that's where happiness lies - it's on the other side of a lot of struggle.
— Vivienne Ming
I didn't pursue happiness at all. I've never pursued it. I wasn't brought up to pursue it.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
— Virginia Woolf
The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
— Victoria Woodhull
As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
— William Dean Howells
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
— William Cobbett
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
— William Blake
Happiness is an inside job.
— William Arthur Ward
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.
— Wendy Raquel Robinson
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
— Walter Benjamin
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
— W. H. Auden
One of my friends is single and he hates being single and I'm like, you need to figure out how to be happy on your own before you can actually be with someone else. They bring extra happiness, they don't bring the happiness.
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
— Vivien Leigh
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
— Vittorio Alfieri
In 'The Future and Its Enemies,' I argue that individual creativity and enterprise are not only personally satisfying but socially good, producing progress and happiness. For celebrating creativity and happiness, I have been called a fascist by critics on both coasts.
The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.
— Vincent Nichols
As an actor, it's important to feel for the character, as you will be watched by audience, and when you start feeling your character, you share a sense of happiness and achievement.
— Vikrant Massey
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
