Whether happiness may come or not one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Happiness in this world when it comes comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us a wild-goose chase and is never attained. Follow some other object and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Happiness is a byproduct of function purpose and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise but little danger.

If I had my way if I was lucky enough if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

I was really into Black Sabbath but heavy guitars can really be very limiting it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand musically you can do a lot more without it.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Apparently a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again from zero.