The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest HemingwayFamily and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
John C. MaxwellEvery man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
Benjamin DisraeliIf you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Abraham MaslowI believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
John RuskinThose who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.
Richard BransonExperience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl MarxA good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin FranklinI am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Benjamin DisraeliImperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
Thomas CarlyleWow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.
Dave GrohlWe will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.
Brian TracyAllow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Samuel JohnsonI don’t think I get angry.
Billy GrahamNext to excellence is the appreciation of it.
William Makepeace ThackerayI’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.
Conor McGregorCoaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.
Tom BradyIf you’ve got a talent, protect it.
Jim CarreyDo every act of your life as if it were your last.
Marcus AureliusThe unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
Joseph AddisonHonesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonThe greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur SchopenhauerWe only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.
Wayne DyerPeace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.
Joyce MeyerThe truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
Wayne DyerI never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Abraham LincolnWhatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus AureliusThe light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David ThoreauWhatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
Brian TracyThe happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
Brian TracyWe are what we believe we are.
C. S. LewisMen want to make women happy.
Jerry SeinfeldWhat a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
Abraham MaslowI think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.
Jerry SeinfeldI don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.
EminemI wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘
Jim CarreyI have only one counsel for you – be master.
Napoleon BonaparteI am a simple Buddhist monk – no more, no less.
Dalai LamaYou can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen KingIt’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.
Lady GagaWorry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
George WashingtonTo try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.
J. Robert OppenheimerI am two with nature.
Woody AllenNever take anything for granted.
Benjamin DisraeliOur envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
HeraclitusOne can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao TzuFew of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
George Bernard ShawYou have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
George Bernard ShawI always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Warren BuffettPeople and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.
Stephen CoveyI already am a product.
Lady GagaOnce you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.
Anthony HopkinsTo affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David ThoreauEverything is generated through your own will power.
Ray BradburyI have been very happy in the House of Representatives.
George H. W. BushThe important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
Dalai LamaMy concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.
Richard M. NixonWe need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother TeresaIf thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
EpicurusIt is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
Immanuel Kant