I don’t mean to be cocky, but if I’m never on TV again, if I never make another dollar, I am proud. I did what I wanted to do.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

He who is contented is rich.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

I never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I wrote an article on a new Porsche for ‚Automobile Magazine.‘ I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I’m more proud of that than anything.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don’t see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?