Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. – Aristotle
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. – Henry David Thoreau
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. – John Dewey
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. – William Butler Yeats
Independence is happiness. – Susan B. Anthony
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
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. – Pablo Picasso
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. – George Orwell
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. – Chanakya
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. – Elbert Hubbard
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. – Soren Kierkegaard
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. – Henry Ford
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. – Abdul Kalam
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. – Norman Vincent Peale
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. – Plato
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. – Henry Ford
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. – Chanakya
