Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Evert

In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand.... I don't need that anymore. I don't need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.

Charles Spurgeon

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Charles Peguy

It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

Charles R. Swindoll

Of all the things God created, I am often most grateful He created laughter.

We won. That is all that matters in tournaments. If you win by one you're happy and that's all you can say.

Art Buchwald

This is what makes me happy: ...Any music-free restaurant ... A grandson who offers to clean the snow off my driveway and also fix my computer ... An evening in bed with a good book. ... A good night's sleep ... As you can see, it doesn't take much to make me happy.

Ayelet Waldman

Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.

Ayn Rand

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

Ayn Rand

I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Ayn Rand

Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers-show me yours-show me that it is possible-show me your achievement-and the knowledge will give me the courage for mine. Mallory (the young artist) to Roark in "The Fountainhead"

Ayn Rand

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Ayn Rand

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Ayn Rand

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.

Ayn Rand

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

Bertrand Russell

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

Bertrand Russell

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

Bertrand Russell

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

Bertrand Russell

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

Bertrand Russell

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

Bertrand Russell

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Bertrand Russell

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Bertrand Russell

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Bertrand Russell

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Bertrand Russell

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

Bertrand Russell

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

Benjamin Disraeli

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Carl Sandburg

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

Carl Sandburg

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.