William Ewart Gladstone

I was brought up to hate and fear liberty. I came to love it. That is the secret of my whole career.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

If you weren’t such a great man, you’d be a terrible bore.

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Be happy; without reason.

I have to plan my happiness. That’s the thing, we think happiness just happens and it can, but you’ve got to work in some happiness too.

If you are not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, and are not enthusiastic about doing that, you will not be successful.

Happiness, wealth, and success are the byproducts of goal setting; they cannot be the goals themselves.

The truth is that all of us can attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to its greatest extent.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.

Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.