Quotes on Happiness And Success

American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

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

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

The best way out is always through.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.