Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orison Swett Marden

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

Orison Swett Marden

The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.

Omar Bongo

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

Olympia Brown

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Olivia Goldsmith

The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

Mason Cooley

Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.

Mason Cooley

The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

Mason Cooley

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

Mason Cooley

Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.

Mason Cooley

Happiness is often hard-hearted.

Mason Cooley

Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.

Mason Cooley

Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent.

Mason Cooley

Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.

Mason Cooley

You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.

Mason Cooley

The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.

Mason Cooley

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

Mason Cooley

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

Mason Cooley

As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them.

Mason Cooley

Do not wait for a reason to be happy.

Mason Cooley

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

Mason Cooley

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

Mencius

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

Melody Beattie

We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today...if you don't have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You probably won't start living happily ever after, but you may start living happily, purposefully, and with gratitude...Goals are gratitude in action. They give us the opportunity to build on what we already have. While achieving goals can be a lengthy process, we can learn to be grateful for each stage in the process of setting and meeting goals.

Melody Beattie

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Martha Washington

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

Martha Washington

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

New happiness too must be learned to bear.

Marge Piercy

What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

Ted Turner

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

Ted Turner

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

Theodore Roosevelt

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

Malcolm Muggeridge

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.