Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life (10 page)

"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires."
Epicurus

"It is the
chiefest
point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."
Desiderius
Erasmus

"Account no man happy till he dies."
Euripides

"Ten Spiritual Tonics
1.
Stop worrying. Worry kills life.
2. Begin each day with a prayer. It will arm your soul.
3. Control appetite. Over-indulgence clogs body and mind.
4. Accept your limitations . .
.
5. Don’t envy. It wastes time and energy.
6. Have faith in people. Cynicism sours the disposition.
7. Find a hobby. It will relax your nerves.
8. Read a book a week to stimulate imagination and broaden your views.
9. Spend some time alone for the peace of solitude and silence.
10. Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want."
Abraham L. Feinberg

"It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuous intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world."
Ernest A. Fitzgerald

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
Gustave
Flaubert

"How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise."
Malcolm S. Forbes

"There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
Henry Ford

"There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
Henry Ford

"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."
Anatole
France

"Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."
Benjamin Franklin

"Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day."
Benjamin Franklin

"The
U.S.
Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
Benjamin Franklin

"What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . .
Happiness springs immediately from the mind."
Benjamin Franklin

"Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy."
Gustave
Freytag

"Happiness is a man’s greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside."
Erich
Fromm

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
Robert Lee Frost

"He is happy that
knoweth
not himself to be otherwise"
Thomas Fuller

"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy."
Thomas Fuller

"Happiness is a myth we seek
,
If manifested surely irks;
Like river speeding to the plain,
On its arrival slows and
murks
.
For man is happy only in
His aspiration to the heights
;
When he attains his goal, he cools
And longs for other distant flights."
Kahlil Gibran

"If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life."
Jack H.
Goaslind
, Jr.

"Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary."
Jack H.
Goaslind
, Jr.

"A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Nine keys to contentment
Health enough to make work a pleasure.
Wealth enough to support your needs.
Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbors.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
Faith enough to make real things of God.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"The highest happiness of man . . . is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity."
Oliver Goldsmith

"It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead."
Brutus Hamilton

"Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions."
Robert J.
Havighurst

"Happiness, in this world, if it comes at all, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and it is never attained."
Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, my alight upon you."
Nathaniel Hawthorne

"So I have
loitered
my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything."
William
Hazlitt

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Ermest
Hemingway

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."
Burton Hills

"Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel towards what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much."
W. D. Hoard

"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
Eric
Hoffer

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches."
Elbert Green Hubbard

"Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop."
Gittel
Hudnick

"Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
Victor Marie Hugo

"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
Victor Marie Hugo

"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers."
Francis Hutcheson

"Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness."
Henrik
Ibsen

"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so."
Dr. David Ralph
Inge

"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment, it is a result."
Robert Green
Ingersoll

"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand."
Henry James Jr.

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
Storm Jameson

"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness."
Thomas Jefferson

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."
Douglas Jerrold

"Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man."
Dr. Samuel Johnson

"That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small."
Dr. Samuel Johnson

"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."
Dr. Samuel Johnson

"When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality."
Dr. Samuel Johnson

" True
happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends
But in the worth and choice."
Ben Johnson

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice."
Ben Johnson

"Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible."
William George Jordan

" True happiness must have the tinge of sorrow outlived, the sense of pain softened by the mellowing years, the chastening of loss that in the wondrous mystery of time transmutes our suffering into love and sympathy with others."
William George Jordan

"Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give. . . . If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is."
William George Jordan

"It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honorably."
Immanuel Kant

"How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart."
Nikos
Kazantzakis

"Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad deep knowledge - is to know true ends from
false,
and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life."
Helen Adams Keller

"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."
Helen Adams Keller

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which as been opened for us."
Helen Adams Keller

"Definition of happiness: The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Do it this very moment!
Don’t put it off, don’t wait!
There’s no use in doing a kindness
If you do it a day too late."
Charles Kingsley

"Happiness and misery depend as much on temperament as on fortune."
Francois
Duc
de La
Rochefoucauld

"One is never so happy or
so
unhappy as one thinks."
Francois
Duc
de La
Rochefoucauld

"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."
Francois
Du
de La
Rochefoucauld

"We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be."
Francois
Duc
de La
Rochefoucauld