Positive Quotations

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. - Helen Keller

The better part of happiness is to wish to be what you are.
- Desiderius Erasmus

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
- Douglas Jerrold

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
- Elbert Hubbard

Know thine opportunity.
- Pittacus

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
- English Proverb

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
- Henry Ford

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
- George Santayana

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- Saint Francis of Assisi

The only happy man is he who thinks himself so.
- French Proverb

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
Who can all today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
- John Dryden

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort.
- Sir H. Davy

First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus