Happiness Quotes (Part 2)

 

 

 

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” (Arthur Schopenhauer)

 

“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.” (Henry David Thoreau)

 

“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 

“I know well that happiness is in little things.” (John Ruskin)

 

“Five great enemies to peace inhabit us, avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 

“To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.” (Charles Caleb Colton)

 

“The secret of being miserable, is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.” (George Bernard Shaw)

 

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” (Aristotle)

 

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” (Abraham Lincoln)

 

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do, are in harmony.” (Mahatma Ghandi)

 

“A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.” (Baltasar Gracian)

 

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” (Aristotle)

 

“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.” (Johann Von Goethe)

 

“Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.” (Bertrand Russell)

 

“The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men.” (Charles Caleb Colton)

 

“I will not be a tourist in the world of images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.” (Anais Nin)

 

“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.” (George Santayana)

 

“All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.” (Lord Byron)

Happiness Quotes (Part 1)

 

 

“The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others.” (Paramahansa Yogananda)

 

“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.” (Bertrand Russell)

 

“Man is the artificer of his own happiness.” (Henry David Thoreau)

 

“All happiness depends on courage and work.” (Honore De Balzac)

 

“Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.” (Aristotle)

 

“A man should always consider how much he has, more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.” (Joseph Addison)

 

“Let that day be lost to us, on which we did not dance once.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)

 

“They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.” (Francis Bacon)

 

“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.” (Benjamin Franklin)

 

“To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.” (Albert Camus)

 

“Human happiness and moral duty, are inseparably connected.” (George Washington)

 

“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” (Joseph Addison)

 

“Be as you wish to seem.” (Socrates)

 

“Where there is purpose, there is happiness as well.” (Swami Abhedananda)

 

“I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.” (Zhuangzi)

 

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience; this is the ideal life.” (Mark Twain)

 

“Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.” (Isaac Watts)

 

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” (Bertrand Russell)

 

“The secret to happiness is to admire without desiring.” (Carl Sandburg)

 

“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.” (Marcus Aurelius)

 

 

Beauty Quotes

 

 

“Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a though is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 

“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” (Edmund Burke)

 

“The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.” (John Ruskin)

 

“Beauty without expression tires.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 

“Beauty as we feel it, is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.” (George Santayana)

 

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” (John Keats)

 

“The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.” (John Keats)

 

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 

“Let my soul smile through my heart, and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may search scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.” (Paramahansa Yogananda)

 

“Beauty is not caused. It is.” (Emily Dickinson)

 

“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.” (Aristotle)

 

“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.” (Socrates)

 

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” (Kahlil Gibran)

 

“Beauty is truth, truth, beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” (John Keats)

 

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Adversity Quotes

 

 

“Those things that hurt, instruct.” (Benjamin Franklin)

 

“How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

 

“Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.” (Edgar Allan Poe)

 

“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.” (Mark Twain)

 

“The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.” (Albert Camus)

 

“Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.” (Marcus Aurelius)

 

“You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.” (George Bernard Shaw)

 

“What does not destroy me, makes me strong.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)

 

“True knowledge comes only through suffering.” (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

 

“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.” (George Santayana)

 

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” (Jean De La Fontaine)

 

“Necessity is often the spur to genius.” (Honore De Balzac)

 

“Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 

“Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it.” (Baltasar Gracian)

 

“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” (Francis Bacon)

 

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

 

Love Quotes (Part 1)

 

 

“No one loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.” (Honore De Balzac)

 

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” (Aristotle)

 

“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.” (Lord Byron)

 

“Lips that taste of tears, they say are the best for kissing.” (Dorothy Parker)

 

“Love gives itself; it is not bought.” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

 

“He who lives in our mind is near, though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart, is far though he may really be nearby.” (Chanakya)

 

“If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.” (Charles Caleb Colton)

 

“We are all born for love, it is the principle of existence and its only end.” (Benjamin Disraeli)

 

“The more one judges, the less one loves.” (Honore De Balzac)

 

“The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

 

“So dear I love him, that with him all deaths, I could endure, without him, live no life.”  (John Milton)

 

“It in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the subject loved.”  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

 

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”  (Anais Nin)

 

“Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.”   (Honore de Balzac)

 

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”  (Henry Miller)

 

“Who so loves, believes the impossible.”  (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

 

“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.”  (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

 

“There’s no love lost between us.”  (Miguel De Cervantes)

 

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”  (Kahlil Gibran)

 

“Do not seek the ‘because’; in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.” (Anais Nin)

 

“Love is the poetry of the senses.” (Honore De Balzac)

Proverbs (Part 3)

 

– Never speak ill of the dead.

– The devil finds work for idle hands to do.

– If at first you don’t succeed try, try and try again.

– He who can does, he who cannot, teaches.

– To everything there is a season.

– A wise man hears one word, and understand two.

– Silence is golden.

– If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

– Wonders will never cease.

– The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

– There’s an exception to every rule.

– Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.

– What goes up must come down.

– The best things in life are free.

– Honesty is the best policy.

– Truth is stranger than fiction.

– A person is known by the company he keeps.

– The devil looks after his own.

– Rome wasn’t built in a day.

– There are none so blind, as those that will not see.

 

 

 

 

Proverbs (Part 2)

 

– All things grow with time, except grief.

 
– A place for everything, and everything in its place.

 
– A woman’s work is never done.

 
– Don’t burn your bridges behind you.

 
– Great minds think alike.

 
– Easy come, easy go.

 
– First impressions are the most lasting.

 
– No man can serve two masters.

 
– Every garden may have some weeds.

 
– Don’t try to walk before you can crawl.

 
– Doubt is the beginning, not the end of wisdom.

 
– Still waters run deep.

 
– Talk is cheap.

 
– Fortune favors the brave.

 
– Let the punishment fit the crime.

 
– Spare the rod and spoil the child.

 
– Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new.

 
– There’s none so deaf, as those who will not hear.

 
– All is fair in love and war.

 
– Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Ability And Achievement (Part 2)

 

 

“There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” (Henry Ford)

 

“The true worth of a man, is to be measured by the objects he pursues.” (Marcus Aurelius)

 
“Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life, I find.” (John F. Kennedy)

 
“Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.” (Chanakya)

 
“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.” (Margaret Thatcher)

 
“The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.” (Bertrand Russell)

 
“The one thing worth living for, is to keep one’s soul pure.” (Marcus Aurelius)

 
“Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.” (Oscar Wilde)

 
“Difficulties exist to be surmounted.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 
“Poverty, frost, famine, rain, disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common sense.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 
“Without a purpose, nothing should be done.” (Marcus Aurelius)

 
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” (Theodore Roosevelt)

 
“Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.” (Henry David Thoreau)

 
“I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.” (Abraham Lincoln)

 
“He turns not back who is bound to a star.” (Leonardo Da Vinci)

 
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” (George Bernard Shaw)

 
“People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is, that there is tons of room at the top.” (Margaret Thatcher)

 
“All men seek one goal: success or happiness.” (Aristotle)

 
“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)

 

“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” (Margaret Thatcher)

Ability And Achievement (Part 1)

 

“There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.” (George Santayana)

 
“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.” (George Bernard Shaw)

 
“Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

 
“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.” (Abraham Lincoln)

 

“The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather in what he longs to attain.” (Kahlil Gibran)

 
“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.” (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

 
“Well is known that ambition can creep as well as soar.” (Edmund Burke)

 
“He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.” (Henry David Thoreau)

 
“In everything one must consider the end.” (Jean De La Fontaine)

 
“Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one’s liberty.” (Henri Frederic Amiel)

 
“The brain is wider than the sky.” (Emily Dickinson)

 
“Every calling is great when greatly pursued.” (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

 
“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.” (James Russell Lowell)

 
“He that will not apply new remedies must except new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.” (Francis Bacon)

 
“To overcome difficulties, is to experience the full delight of existence.” (Arthur Schopenhauer)

 
“What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.” (Socrates)

 
“I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.” (Benjamin Disraeli)

 

“I am easily satisfied with the very best.” (Winston Churchill)

 
“Anything you’re good at, contributes to happiness.” (Bertrand Russell)

 

Action Quotes

 

 

“Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 

“The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.” (Henry Miller)

 

“Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.” (George Washington)

 

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” (Johann Von Goethe)

 

“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.” (Mark Twain)

 

“You have striven so hard, and so long, to compel life. Can’t you now slowly change, and let life slowly drift into you… let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.” (D.H. Lawrence)

 

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” (Kahlil Gibran)

 

“As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.” (Ernest Hemingway)

 

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” (Benjamin Disraeli)

 

“Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.” (Aristotle)

 

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.” (Abraham Lincoln)

 

“I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.” (Mahatma Gandhi)

 

“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.” (George Santayana)

 

“For purposes of action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.” (Henri Frederic Amiel)

 

“To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.” (Johann Von Goethe)

 

“The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.” (Confucius)

 

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” (Leonardo Da Vinci)

 

“I want to see you shoot the way you shout.” (Theodore Roosevelt)

 

“Well done is better than well said.” (Benjamin Franklin)

 

“Do every act of your life as if it were your last.” (Marcus Aurelius)

 

“God hasn’t called me to be successful. He’s called me to be faithful.” (Mother Teresa)

 

“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

 

“Let him that would move the world, first move himself.” (Socrates)

 

“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.” (Mark Twain)