The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Men want to make women happy.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.