Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
— Albert Schweitzer
Most Powerful What If quotations
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.
When you talk, you are only repeating what already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be.
I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.
You may not be her first, her last, or her only.
She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters?
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.
If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.
If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.
Most of what we say and do is not essential.
If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'
If I could take your troubles I would toss them into the sea, But all these things I'm finding Are impossible for me. I cannot build a mountain Or catch a rainbow fair, But let me be what I know best, A friend that is always there.
I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it.
The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.
I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it.
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do.
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.
If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
Jimmy Page is an excellent producer. Led Zeppelin I and II are classics. As a player he's very good in the studio, but I've never seen him play well live. He's sloppy. He plays like he's got a broken hand and he's two years old. If you put out a good album and play like a two year old, what's the purpose?
I want to show everyone that if you pursue your dreams, they can come true no matter what. That's what I want to do.
If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.
If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
How sad, a heart that does not know how to love, that does not know what it is to be drunk with love. If you are not in love, how can you enjoy the blinding light of the sun, the soft light of the moon?
I don’t care what you did yesterday. If you’re happy with that, you have bigger problems.
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
My main goal in life is to just be happy.
I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.
.. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.
A lot of people like to fool you and say that you're not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That's what I learned from selling crack.
If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.
If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body.
We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.
If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other.
If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.
If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins.
For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?