Happiness 

Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
John B. Sheerin

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C.P. Snow

Happiness is more a state of health than of wealth.
Frank Tyger

Giving of yourself, learning to be tolerant, giving recognition and approval to others, remaining flexible enough to mature and learn - yields happiness, harmony, contentment and productivity. These are the qualities of a rich life, the bounteous harvest of getting along with people.
Jack C Yewell

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, thought it is more likely that it will make you happy.
George Matthew Adams

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
Richard L. Evans

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert G. Ingersoll

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, 'making it', or success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
KIN HUBBARD

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Keller, Helen

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.
Alma Guillermoprieto

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Dale Carnegie

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
Dale Carnegie

Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.
Jerry Gellis

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
Roger L'Estrange

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Denis Waitley

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Anonymous

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
Anonymous

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.
Sharon Stone

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.
Jim Rohn

It doesn't get any better than this.
Author Unknown

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus A. Antoninus

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Life  

Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
Mary Manin Morrissey

You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Susannah Clark

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Thomas Carlyle

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
Cicero

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
William Hazlitt

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Helen Keller

Life's more amusing than we thought.
Andrew Lang

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Seneca

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
Hansen, Grace

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Hubbard, Elbert

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
Sachs, A.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tehyi, Hsieh

Life without love is a shadow of things that might be.
Unknown

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
VanDyke, Henry

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
HENRY JAMES

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.
David O. McKay

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Jean de la Bruyere

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life.
John Homer Miller

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

Opportunity
 

Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability.
Contributed by Joe Brown

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
Charles Richter

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

Too many people are thinking of securty instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
Maxwell Maltz

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.
Les Brown

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Whitney Young, Jr.

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. . . . you might not be home.
Jinger Heath

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demmosthenes

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Nowadays some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with a remote control.
M. Charles Wheeler

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.
English Proverb

It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
George Matthew Adams

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters—one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our ***e with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
Gloria Estefan

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
Anonymous

Perseverance 

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.
Owen Feltham

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Plutarch

God helps those who persevere.
The Koran

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.
David Sarnoff

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.
George Allen

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Dale Carnegie

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
Plutarch

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.
H. Ross Perot

A jug fills drop by drop.
Buddha

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Norman Vincent Peale

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.
Orel Herhiser

How long should you try? Until.
Jim Rohn

Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perseverance allows you to get back on track when you hit a detour.
Catherine Pulsifer

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
Julie Andrews

Success 

Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Henry David Thoreau

Nothing happens until I make it happen.
contributed by: Scott Wilson

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
Mark Twain

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.
John R. Amos

Thre is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
Robert Schuller

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
Wilson Mizner

Success usuallly comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Lowell Thomas

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie

Success is never wondering what if.
Karrie Huffman

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor

Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get.
Dave Gardner

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
Nelson Boswell

Time

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo Da Vinci

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little left of it. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
P.W. Litchfield

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
Alexander Woollcott

Time heals what reason cannot.
Seneca

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

It takes time to build a castle.
Irish Proverb

A minute now is better than a minute later.
Anonymous

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
Anonymous

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
Anonymous

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
Lisa Alther

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Diogenes Laetius

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ...
Michel de Montaigne

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.
Thomas Edison

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
John F. Kennedy

Nothing is worth more than this day.
Goethe

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.
Lee Iacocca

One today is worth two tomorrows.
Franklin

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure?
Author Unknown

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.
Charles Richards