The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances.
Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy.
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
I went back to being an amateur, in the sense of somebody who loves what she is doing. If a professional loses the love of work, routine sets in, and that's the death of work and life.
The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
The happy people are those who are producing something.
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness, I would say "Work a little harder; Work a little longer; Work!"
To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks.
There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.
