There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Happiness is an inside job.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can't ever let that stop us. We can't ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life.

Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.

The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences.

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Happiness is only real when shared.

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.

The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.

Make space in your life, space for health and happiness.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Love is trembling happiness.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

I'm trying to find a little joy and happiness, a lot of giggles - and maybe some pretty shoes.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

What is happiness other than a negotiation between reality and your dreams? It's understanding that you give up something for something else. I feel like that's been how I've been trying to be happy, although in my DNA there's more of a depressed person.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.