Unhappy Quotes

Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.

The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized.

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.

There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe, by those who don't believe.

During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]

Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get him out of office.

If you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty.

I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.

The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.

Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.

What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy. The happiness of every living thing is what we want.

I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?