Quotes By Catogory
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
―Albert Einstein
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open”.
―John Barrymore
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
—Dalai Lama
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
―Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
―Jonathan Safran Foer
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
—Bertrand Russell
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
―Abraham Lincoln
“There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
―Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
―Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
―Albert Camus
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
―Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
―Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
―Marcel Proust
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
―Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
―George Burns
“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.”
—Will Smith
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
—John Lennon
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable”.
—Clare Boothe Luce
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
—Stephen King
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony”.
—Mahatma Gandhi
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
—Seneca
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavour.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
—Soren Kierkegaard
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature”.
—Marcus Aurelius
“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”
—Henry Ford
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.”
—Steve Jobs
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
—Mae West
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.”
—Thomas A. Edison
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it”.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere”.
—Agnes Repplier
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things”.
—Henry Ward Beecher
“Not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness.”
—J.M. Barrie
“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
―Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
―Abraham Lincoln
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels”.
―Saint Augustine
“Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning”.
―Gza
“There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self”.
―Henri Frederic Amiel
“If you aren’t humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you”.
―Anand Mahindra
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
―Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers”.
―Swami Sivananda
“Who is humbler? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?”
―Carl Sagan
“There’s no need to show off when you know who you are”.
―Maxime Lagacé
“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
―Albert Einstein
“True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility”.
―Bryant H. McGill
“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
―Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
“Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit”.
―Rudolf Steiner
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
―Ernest Hemingway
“A great man is always willing to be little”.
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
―Winston S. Churchill
“Humility isn’t denying your strengths; it’s being honest about your weaknesses”.
―Rick Warren
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left”.
―Oscar Levant
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Humility will open more doors than arrogance ever will”.
–Zig Ziglar
“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
―Criss Jami
“Some ask if lowering one’s pride is conceding defeat. I think not. Humility is a sign of inner strength and wisdom”.
―Haemin Sunim
“The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility”.
–T. S. Eliot
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world”.
―Miyamoto Musashi
“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real”.
―Thomas Merton
“A humble person is more likely to be self-confident… a person with real humility knows how much they are loved”.
―Cornelius Plantinga
“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up”.
―Jesse Jackson
“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
―Epictetus
“Quote of the month”
“Until our mindset changes, nothing will ever change. It’s easy to unshackle the physical chains of slavery, than that of the chains of mental slavery”
BSO Kpechi
Inspirational Speaker
