Achieve Your Full Potential: 1800 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life (9 page)

Anonymous

"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness."

Anonymous

“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want the most for what you want now.”
Zig
Ziglar

"Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment."

Anonymous

"Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool."

Anonymous

"Happiness is acceptance."

Anonymous

"Happiness is like a butterfly.
The more you chase it, the more it eludes you.
But if you turn your attention to other things
,
It comes and sits softly on your shoulder."
Henry David Thoreau

"Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself."

Anonymous

"Happiness is made to be shared."

Anonymous

"Happiness is not always measured in smiles."

Anonymous

"Happiness is not pleasure,
it's
victory."

Anonymous

"Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable."

Anonymous

"Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed."

Anonymous

“Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him yours.”
Zig
Ziglar

"Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal."

Anonymous

"He alone is the happy man who has learned to extract happiness not from ideal conditions but from actual ones about him."

Anonymous

"He who has not learned to share his blessings with others has not found the true path to enduring happiness. HAPPINESS comes from sharing one's self and one's blessings.
All riches are multiplied by the simple process of sharing them where they may serve others."

Anonymous

"Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves."

Anonymous

"Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it."

Anonymous

"Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn’t cost anything."
Anonymous

"No one can secure happiness without earning it."
Anonymous

"Security is a thumb and a blanket.
Happiness is a warm puppy."
Anonymous

"Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
Anonymous

"Some pursue happiness, others create it."
Anonymous

"Sometimes we miss happiness by looking too far for things nearby."
Anonymous

"Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you."
Anonymous

"The supreme happiness to life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves."
Anonymous

"When people yearn with all their hearts
For just one treasure far away
;
They close their eyes to countless joys
That crowd around them every day.”
Anonymous

"You have to find happiness in yourself before you can find it with someone."
Anonymous

"Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy."
Dr. Robert Anthony

"Happiness depends upon
ourselves
."
Aristotle

"Happiness is a state of activity."
Aristotle

" .
. . happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it. . . . "
Aristotle

"If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence."
Aristotle

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
Marcus Aurelius
Antoninus

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."
Richard David Bach

"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."
Mildred
Barthel

"Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!"
Joachim
Du
Bellay

"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it
,
it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay
not attention to it and go about your business, you'll
find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your
lap."
William John Bennett

"I remember hearing in a talk that the more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become."
Ezra Taft Benson

"The lives and happiness of our children, as far ahead as the mind can reach, depend on us today. If we succeed, posterity looking back will record that this was indeed man's finest hour."
Carl A.
Berendsen

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

Ingrid Bergman

"Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs."
Josh Billings

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."
Lady Marguerite
Blessington

"You can make yourself happy or
miserable,
it's the same amount of effort."
Ray Bradbury

“Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your entire life around
it .
”
Brian Tracy

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."
Francis Herbert Bradley

"Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste."
Charlotte Bronte

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
Ritz Mae Brown

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."

H.Jackson
Browne

"There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness."
Sir John Buchan

"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."
Siddhartha
Guatama
Buddha

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
George Burns

"What is the best thing for a stream? It is to keep moving. If it stops, it stagnates. So the best thing for a man is that which keeps the currents going - the physical, the moral, and the intellectual currents. Hence the secret of happiness is something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all men, and what a wretched world it would be! Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are kept busy and not left to feed upon themselves. Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it. How important is health to happiness, yet the best promoter of health is something to do. Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him."
John Burroughs

"What is the worth of anything
,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?"
Richard Owen Cambridge

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
Albert
Camus

"I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness."
Albert
Camus

"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them."

Albert
Camus

"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."
Dale Carnegie

"Success is getting what you want; happiness
is wanting
what you get."
Dale Carnegie

"If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living."
Herbert N.
Casson

"He who sings frightens away his ills."
Miguel de Cervantes

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
Allan K. Chalmers

"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
William Emery
Channing

"To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ..."
Madam
du
Chetelet

"Anybody who is happy all the time needs a psychiatrist."
David A. Christensen

"I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier."
Marcus
Tullius
Cicero

"In our daily lives, we must see
That it is not happiness that makes us grateful
,
But the gratefulness that makes us happy."
Albert Clarke

"Happiness is a stock that doubles in a year."
Ira U.
Cobleigh

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction."
Pierre
Corneille

"If solid happiness we prize
,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam.
The world has nothing to bestow
;
From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear hut, our home."
Nathaniel Cotton

"Happiness depends, as Nature shows
,
Less on exterior things than most suppose."
William Cowper

"We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness."
Dalai Lama

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
Dalai Lama

"Happiness is always a byproduct. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."
Robert Davies

"To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness."
John Dewey

"Happiness is not given but exchanged."
Diane

"The envious are not happy unless they are making other people envious."
Diane

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
Benjamin Disraeli

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
Hugh Downs

"The gift of happiness belongs to those who
unwrap
it."
Andrew Dunbar

"The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts."

Timothy Dwight

"I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state,
nor
to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig."
Albert Einstein

"Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others."
George Eliot

"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains."
Ralph Waldo Emerson