Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others but only those who have greater designs.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

The very greatest things - great thoughts discoveries inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship often pondered over in sorrow and at length established with difficulty.

There is no greater glory than love nor any great punishment than jealously.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully but a greater to accept it graciously.

Mr. Chairman delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Every great man every successful man no matter what the field of endeavor has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat which is the combat of life and greater than every other earthly conflict.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation and then fail to get it.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning if they be accompanied by a bad training are a much greater misfortune.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.