Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

Caring about others running the risk of feeling and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

If virtue promises happiness prosperity and peace then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us progress is always an approach toward it.

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

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

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

Fortune which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

I have great people smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.

A constant struggle a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings is the price of all great achievements.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

I teach one semester a year and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue bring some sanity back into the financial sector and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.