Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Topic: Happiness
Location: Glacier National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

› Eleanor Roosevelt

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It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

› Eleanor Roosevelt

Belief Conflict Peace Work

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

› Eleanor Roosevelt

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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

› Eleanor Roosevelt

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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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But to most of us society shows us not its face and eye, but its side and its back. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals. — Booker T. Washington

Goals Obstacles

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them. — Winston Churchill

Adversity Leadership

What one person can do, another will be able to do. — Nigerian Proverb

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. — Lee Iacocca

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Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style. — Jonathan Swift

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And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. — John Steinbeck

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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. — Demosthenes

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We cannot be deprived of the happy consciousness of the pure devotion to the public good with which we discharged the trust committed to us. — James Madison

Commitment Friendship Happiness Trust

Unhappiness can be a bridge to happiness. — Japanese Proverb

Adversity Happiness Misfortune Mistakes

And feel that I am happier than I know. — John Milton

Affirmation Happiness

Travel east or travel west, a man's own house is still the best. — Dutch Proverb

Happiness Self-esteem Travel

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

› Benjamin Franklin

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Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full resources that are within thy reach.

› Pindar

Appreciation Gratitude Happiness

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. — Maya Angelou

Happiness Love

Rest, nature, books, music, such is my idea of happiness.

› Leo Tolstoy

Happiness

Attitude Happiness Optimism Pessimism

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

Gratitude Happiness

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

› William Shakespeare

Accountability Character Commitment Happiness Love Principle Truth

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. — Marcel Proust

Friendship Gratitude Happiness Love Networking

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

› Seneca

Happiness

Happiness Intelligence

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. — George Orwell

Acceptance Happiness

Such sober certainty of walking bliss.

› John Milton

Happiness

So is cheerfulness, or good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratitude Habits Happiness

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

› Oscar Wilde

Happiness

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

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Happiness

Feeling good is what you should be doing every day of your life. — Dr. Wayne Dyer

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