Growth is not concerned with itself.
The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
If ambition doesn't hurt you you haven't got it.
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.
This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the w...
That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best...
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty ihen happiness comes of itself.
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them you are not necessary to anyone.
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
True happiness we are told consists in getting out of one's self but the point is not only to get out you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.
The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea in the conquest of the goal pursued.
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly one-directionally without regret or reservation.
Happy the man who knows his duties!
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
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