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

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Always Happy, Influencing People

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

- Louise DeSalvo

topic: Artist, Thinking, Tropic Of Cancer, Happiest Man

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Home, Men, Finding Happiness, Happiest Man

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

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

topic: Failure, Men, Secret, Happiest Man

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

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

topic: Happiest Man

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

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Men, Saving Money, Enjoyment, Happiest Man

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Death, Men, Connections, Beginning Of Life, Happiest Man

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

topic: Men, Important, Alive, Happiest Man

It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to fathom. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, i thought I was an artist. I no longer think about it. I am. There are no more books to be written, thank God.

- Henry Miller

topic: Book, Fall, Men, Looking For Happiness, Defamation

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

- Theodore Martin

topic: Men, Elixir, Elixir Of Life, Happiest Man

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

source: 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

topic: Heart, Loss, Men, Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, Happiest Man

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Happiest Man

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

- Diego Maradona

topic: Running, Men, Balls, Happiest Man

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

topic: Adversity, Men, Alive, Happiest Man

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

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

topic: Happiest Man

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

topic: Happiness, Wisdom, Humility, Happiest Man

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

- Samuel Goldwyn

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

topic: Funny, Happiness, Witty, Funny Oxymoron, Happiest Man

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

topic: Men, Mind, Tasks, Happiest Man

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

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Men, Happiest Man

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

topic: Men, Years, World, Happiest Man

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

- Joe Nichols

topic: Men, Records, World, Happiest Man

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

topic: Hero, Mean, Men, Economic Independence, Great Inventors

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

- Lionel Messi

topic: Son, Men, World, Happiest Man

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

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

topic: Happiness, Country, Home, Returning Home, Happiest Man

There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.

- Charles Caleb Colton

topic: Blessing, Two, Differences, Happiest Man

The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Men, Mirrors, Doe, Happiest Man

The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1844). “Nature: An Essay ; And, Lectures on the Times”, p.53

topic: Jesus, Nature, Humility, Happiest Man

I am the happiest man alive and I am happy for myself, for my family and for my country.

- Lionel Messi

topic: Soccer, Country, Men, Happiest Man

all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!

- Frederick Franck

topic: Men, Earth, Saws, Happiest Man

I was the happiest man in the world, happier than Bill Gates

- Tamim Iqbal

topic: Men, Bills, World, Happiest Man

February is a month of months, and there is one special day: Valentine's Day on the 14th. I know it's still a ways off, but I just can't wait. Janice, if you're watching, will you make me the happiest man in the world and get out of my apartment?

- Ed Helms

topic: Valentine, Men, Waiting, Happiest Man

What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?

- Nancy Reagan

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Mother, Flower, Men, Mother In Law, Happiest Man

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

- Anthony Trollope

source: Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.2852, e-artnow

topic: Men, Hands, Trouble, Happiest Man

Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth when he's performing, but when the show is over, he's sad and troubled. I wish he could live in the eternal present, because in the theater everything remains in memories and photographs. Literature, on the other hand, allows you to live in the present and to remain in the pantheon of the future. Literature is a way to say, I was here, this is what I thought, this is what I perceived. This is my signature, this is my name.

- Ilan Stavans

topic: Memories, Father, Men, Pantheon, Happiest Man