Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I’ve learned never to say never.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

I’m a can-do girl.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

People want you to fail.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.