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Winston Churchill

“The courses of the Victory were absorbed into the main, then her topsails went, and then her top-gallants. She was now no more than a dead fly’s wing on a sheet of spider’s web; and even this fragment diminished. Anne could hardly bear to see the end, and yet she resolved not to flinch. The admiral’s flag sank behind the watery line, and in a minute the very trunk of the last main-mast stole away. The Victory was gone.”

Thomas Hardy

". . . He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life."

Roland Huntford

"What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death." William James

"Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends, those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even, hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now? Now when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail. If we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come."

Abraham Lincoln

"Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

Edwin Markham

"It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory."

General George Marshall

"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."

Blaise Pascal

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

HAPPINESS

228 Inspiring Quotes

"There is only one success - to spend your life in your own way."

Christopher Morley

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."

Martha Washington

"Don’t limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded."

Charles Schwab

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery."

Anne Frank

“I"m so optimistic I'd go after Moby Dick in a row boat and take the tartar sauce with me.”

Zig Ziglar

"In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself."

Anonymous

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

Franklin Roosevelt

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

James M. Barrie

"Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead."

Scottish Proverb

"Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple, yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend."

Bits and Pieces

"Happiness lies in our own backyard, but It's probably well hidden by crabgrass."

Dell Crossword Puzzles

"If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come."

Chinese Proverb

"If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.

If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.

If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else."

Chinese Proverb

"True happiness consists in making happy."

Bharavi's Kiratarjuniya, Hindu

"This planet has or rather had a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it was not the small pieces of paper that were unhappy."

Douglas Noel Adams

“Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly" comes from the old English word "seilig" and it's literal definition is "to be blessed , happy, healthy and prosperous.”

Zig Ziglar

"If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world."

Joseph Addison

"The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness."

Joseph Addison

"Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man."

Muhammad Ali

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness."

Woody Allen

"We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own joy."

Henri Frediric Amiel

"Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves."

F. Emerson Andrews

"All I ask for is an opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness."

Anonymous

"All the happiness you ever find lies in you."

Anonymous

"An endurance test for some people is the pursuit of happiness."

Anonymous

"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness."

Anonymous

“The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want the most for what you want now.”

Zig Ziglar

"Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment."

Anonymous

"Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool."

Anonymous

"Happiness is acceptance."

Anonymous

"Happiness is like a butterfly.

The more you chase it, the more it eludes you.

But if you turn your attention to other things,

It comes and sits softly on your shoulder."

Henry David Thoreau

"Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself."

Anonymous

"Happiness is made to be shared."

Anonymous

"Happiness is not always measured in smiles."

Anonymous

"Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory."

Anonymous

"Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable."

Anonymous