Quotes about Happiness

You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell!

Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

Those who move forward "with a" happy spirit will find that things alwas work out.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

Remember, your relationships have not been designed by God as vehicles for human happiness, but as instruments of redemption.

If I am married to Christ, the core of my present life is not personal happiness, but spiritual purity.

Jesus is not a vending machine that dispenses what we want to feel good about ourselves. He is the Holy One who comes to cleanse us, fill us, and change us. He does not do this according to our agendas. He will not serve our wayward needs. He loves us too much to merely make us happy. He comes to make us holy. There will be many occasions when he will not give us what we think we need, but rather, he will give us what he knows we need.