Tag: true happiness

25 of the Most Inspirational Quotes

Posted on June 20, 2011 by

. What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. ~Ralph Marston

2. Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. ~John F. Kennedy

3. What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~Henry David Thoreau

4. To be a good loser is to learn how to win. ~Carl Sandburg

5. To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

6. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. ~Thomas Jefferson

7. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford

8. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein

9. For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. ~Charles De Gaulle

10. True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents. ~John W. Gardner

11. We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. ~Orison Swett Marden

12. What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. ~Henry David Thoreau

13. Wherever you are – be all there. ~Jim Elliot

14. Who seeks shall find. ~Sophocles

15. Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. ~Gordon B. Hinckley

16. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~C. S. Lewis

17. You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. ~Ted Turner

18. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. ~Henry Ford

19. You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine. ~Flip Wilson

20. You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London

21. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. ~George S. Patton

22. Destiny is not a matter of chance; it’s a matter of choice. ~Anonymous

23. Excellence is to do a common thing, in an uncommon way. ~Booker T. Washington

24. Do not let what you can not do, interfere with what you can do. ~John Wooden

25. One man with courage makes a majority. ~Andrew Jackson

Quotes about Being Happy

Posted on May 27, 2011 by

Happiness is a choice. – Anonymous

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. – Anne Frank

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. –Thich Nhat Hanh

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. – Dale Carnegie

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. – Zhuangzi

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. – Helen Keller

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

Happiness is a direction, not a place. – Sydney J. Harris

Will Quotes

Posted on January 13, 2011January 15, 2011 by

– “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” – Buddha

– “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha

– “The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.” – Buddha

– “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” – Buddha

– “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?” – Buddha

– “To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” – Buddha

– “Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.” – Buddha

– “Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.” – Marilyn Monroe

– “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

– “The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nice Words

Posted on December 8, 2010December 8, 2010 by

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. – Marianne Williamson

Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. – George Bernard Shaw

Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. – Lao Tzu

Famous Friendship Quotes

Posted on January 3, 2010 by

– “Tell me what company thou keepst, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.” – Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616) Spanish novelist.

– “Have no friends not equal to yourself.” – Confucious (551 – 497 BC) Chinese philosopher.

– “Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.” – Jacques Delille (1738 – 1813) French poet.

– “A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) US poet & essayist.

– “Keep your friendships in repair.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

– “If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.” – Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) British lexiographer.

– “True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.” – Samuel Johnston

– “It is more shameful to distrust one’s friends than to be deceived by them.” – Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680) French writer.

– “If it is abuse – why one is always sure to here of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 – 1816) British dramatist.

– “Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington (1732 – 1799) US Statesman.

– “True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington

– “I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend’s interest and inclination.” – George Washington

– “Should auld aquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min’?” – Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) Scottish poet.

– “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus (341 – 270 BC) Greek philosopher.

– “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus

– “These are called the pious frauds of friendship.” – Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754) British novelist.

– “Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.” – Samuel Johnston (1709 – 1784) British lexicographer.

– “Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquantaince.” – Samuel Johnston