Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Charles Caleb Colton

If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.

Charles Caleb Colton

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.

Charlie Chaplin

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Benjamin Hoff

Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

Benjamin Franklin

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

Charles Bukowski

be it peace or happiness let it enfold you

Jandy Nelson

The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

James M. Barrie

All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!

Gerard Way

I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference

Friedrich Nietzsche

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

Tony Robbins

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

Bill Hybels

Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.

David Fincher

Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

Alice Waters

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

Donald Trump

Every decision you make is an important one, whether there are twenty thousand people working for you or just one.

Andy Stanley

The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.

Billy Graham

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

Heath Ledger

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

Henry Ford

Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

Chris Hadfield

Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow and the day after that.