The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

To me acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

Police and firefighters are great but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

The great person is ahead of their time the smart make something out of it and the blockhead sets themselves against it.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny but to rouse them from lethargy and to aid them to judge for themselves.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

The great secret of doctors known only to their wives but still hidden from the public is that most things get better by themselves most things in fact are better in the morning.

In reading the lives of great men I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers or preparing meals moms continuously put others before themselves.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things but only what is just whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.