Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
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 secret of success is constancy to purpose.
The man who fails because he aims astray, or because he does not aim at all, is to be found everywhere.
The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.
The object of war is to survive it.
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.
The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs.
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 lived at all.
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.
The proper function of man is to live-not to exist.
Life's objective is life itself.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
