Showing posts with label Happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happiness. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Positive Attitude..

"The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity."
~Winston Churchill

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." 
~Tom Blandi

Positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
~Zig Ziglar

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open."
~Thomas Dewar


"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change."
~Earl Nightingale

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
~William James


"I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude-your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people-determines you priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself." 
~Carolyn Warner


"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. "
~Charles Prestwich Scott


Make a game of finding something positive in every situation.Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.
~Brian Tracy


"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. "
~Charles Swindoll


"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing...and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!" 
~Lou Holtz

To respond is positive, to react is negative.
~Zig Ziglar

"I am a lucky man." 
~Christopher Reeve


"I believe life is to be lived, not worked, enjoyed, not agonized, loved, not hated." 
~Leland Bartlett


"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."
~Jim Rohn


"Live with passion." 
~Anthony Robbins


"A man without a smiling face must not open a shop."
~Chinese Proverb


"Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other."
~Joseph Addison


"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
~Herm Albright

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Happiness Quotes

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Aristotle

Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
George Matthew Allen

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley
 
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections

Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; 
it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.
John M. Good

Men spend their lives in anticipations,in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Epictetus 

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mills

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
William Ellery Channing

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Ghandi

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Thomas Fuller

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana

No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus

Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination;
--happiness; but few are going by the same road.
Charles Caleb Colton