Great Quotes

I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately.

~ Leonardo Dicaprio

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

~ Bob Hope

From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In the affection and confidence of the people, I am proud to say, I have a great share.

~ Marquis De Lafayette

That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.

~ Willa Cather

Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.

~ Ellen Pompeo

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

~ Thomas Huxley

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

~ Sydney Smith

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

~ Mary Oliver

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

~ Frederick William Faber

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

~ Matthew Arnold

I am living my dream because I get to work with my kids and watch them find their happiness. It's so rewarding - we brainstorm around a conference table and have a really great time doing it.

~ Kris Jenner

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

~ Samuel Johnson

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

~ Samuel Johnson

Working hard is a great way to impact the world, to learn, to grow, to feel accomplished, and sometimes even to find happiness, but it becomes a problem when you do so at the expense of the people closest to you.

~ Travis Bradberry

A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed brains; that the ultimate aloneness in each of us is, finally, inviolable.

~ Andrew Solomon

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

~ Scott Weiss

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

~ Leslie Caron

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

~ Ernest Dimnet

People don't realize the great happiness there is in living to be very old and together all the time.

~ Gunnar Myrdal

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

~ Paul Henderson

Every morning, my dad would have me looking in the mirror and repeat, 'Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.'

~ Gina Rodriguez

I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.

~ Kate Clinton

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

~ Marilyn Vos Savant

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

~ Larry Page

Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to a new day. I pick up 'The New York Times,' and I look at the front page and realize that once again I'm wrong. I start to fixate on stuff.

~ Lewis Black

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

~ John Lewis

The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection.

~ Donatella Versace

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

~ Edmund Hillary

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

~ Henry Rollins

A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.

~ Robin Williams

I don't wake up in the morning and say, 'Jeez, I feel great today. I think I'll write a song.' I mean, anything is more interesting to me than writing a song. It's like, 'I think I'd like to write a song... No, I guess I better go feed the cat first.' You know what I mean? It's like pulling teeth. I don't enjoy it a bit.

~ Jerry Garcia

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

~ Peter O'toole

My parents were great at making sure I got out of bed when I needed to play football on a Sunday morning and that I was ready after school to go to training on a Tuesday and Thursday. But it was never forced upon me or rammed down my throat. If it had been, I could have ended up hating sport.

~ Greg Rutherford

I'm doing everything in my power to be a great mother. I wish I could be with her throughout the day, because I'm always working, but I make sure that whether it's the morning or nighttime, I make it extra special.

~ Christina Milian

Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.

~ John C. Reilly

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

~ Henry David Thoreau

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.

~ Kate Winslet

Braising eggs in a flavoursome, aromatic sauce is all the rage. It is warming and comforting, ideal for the morning when you are not normally up for a great culinary challenge.

~ Yotam Ottolenghi

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

~ Ray Bradbury

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

~ Tom Brady