Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. 726
I don’t think about my previous success. I’m happy that the work I’ve done has been very successful. 718
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. 686
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. 700
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. 788
We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about. 867
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. 651
Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. 692
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. 873
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. 2.52K
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. 625
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. 653
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. 894
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. 660
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. 670
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. 668
