Happiness Quotes

If you don’t believe others can end your suffering, why believe they can end your happiness?

Donald L. Hicks

One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, especially those whose skill is literary, find no opportunity for the independent exercise of their talents, but have to hire themselves out to rich corporations directed by Philistines, who insist upon their producing what they themselves regard as pernicious nonsense. If you were to inquire among journalists in either England or America whether they believed in the policy of the newspaper for which they worked, you would find, I believe, that only a small minority do so; the rest, for the sake of a livelihood, prostitute their skill to purposes which they believe to be harmful. Such work cannot bring any real satisfaction, and in the course of reconciling himself to the doing of it, a man has to make himself so cynical that he can no longer derive whole-hearted satisfaction from anything whatever. I cannot condemn men who undertake work of this sort, since starvation is too serious an alternative, but I think that where it is possible to do work that is satisfactory to man’s constructive impulses without entirely starving, he will be well advised from the point of view of his own happiness if he chooses it in preference to work much more highly paid but not seeming to him worth doing on its own account. Without self-respect genuine happiness is scarcely possible. And the man who is ashamed of his work can hardly achieve self-respect.

Bertrand Russell

Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Through play, children experience a greater confidence in their bodies, surroundings and themselves. They become familiar with what they can and cannot do.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

Do you know why we’re all happy here, monsieur? Because it’s the last house on the road.

Happiness is so simple in life:If I laugh then you are laughing too.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

People are like hot potatoes, if they don't make you happy, drop them.

If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.

Edgar Watson Howe

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Lady Marguerite Blessington

I have found adventure in flying in world travel in business and even close at hand. ... Adventure is a state of mind-and spirit. It comes with faith for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

Jacqueline Cochran

There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.

Frederick W Cropp

Deep faith eliminates fear.

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo no one was there.

Anonymous

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.

George MacDonald

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated it will achieve the mastery ... faith is the stronger emotion because it is positive whereas fear is negative.

John Paul Jones

Fear imprisons faith liberates fear paralyzes faith empowers fear disheartens faith encourages fear sickens faith heals fear makes useless faith makes serviceable.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Fear is faith that it won't work out.

Sister Mary Tricky

Fear is the absence of faith.

Faith in yourself and faith in God are the key to mastery of fear.

God is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear.

Bible

I will not fear for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

Fear is faithlessness.

George MacDonald

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Henry Kissinger

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

John Churton Collins

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

Charles Baudelaire

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Lady Bird Johnson

Things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear.

William Shakespeare

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

William Hazlitt

If you want to conquer fear don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Half our fears are baseless the other half discreditable.

Christian Bovee

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ... the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

John Churton Collins

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

When thinking won't cure fear action will.

W Clement Stone

Above all things never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Ty Cobb

General Grant had a simple childlike recipe for meeting life ... "I am terribly afraid but the other fellow is afraid too."

Sherwood Anderson

What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.

Anonymous

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit.

Bible

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

To do anything in this world worth doing we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wanted to be scared again ... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn the only way I feel challenged.

You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish and if that be so why not now and where you stand?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that even if it does not produce the courage of a hero at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.

Laurens van der Post

I was afraid to write Fear of Flying ergo I had to write it. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it then I must do it.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Winston Churchill

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.

Jean de La Fontaine

He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six.

Chinese Proverb

The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.

William Burnham

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection fears doubts.... I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst take the risk.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

Ding Ling

Winners take chances. Like everyone else they fear failing but they refuse to let fear control them.

Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.

Brendan Francis

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