777 quotes found
“True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
“True happiness we are told consists in getting out of one's self but the point is not only to get out you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”
“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 speak of color.”
“Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly one-directionally without regret or reservation.”
“Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.”
“Without duty life is soft and boneless.”
“Never mind your happiness do your duty.”
“I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who by all laws of logic should never have made it. At each stage of my career I lacked the experience.”
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
“A determinate purpose of life and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success.”
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”
“If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.”
“I think the purpose of life is to be useful to be responsible to be honorable to be compassionate. It is after all to matter: to count to stand for something to have made some difference that you l...”
“Only when men are connected to large universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.”
“The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.”
“Reach high for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep for every dream precedes the goal.”
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
