When it's all over, it's not who you were. It's whether you made a difference.

~Bob Dole

Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation.

~Laura Schlessinger

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing -- then we truly live life.

~Greg Anderson

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

~Stedman Graham

Life is a promise; fulfill it.

~Mother Theresa

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

~Confucius

God has given each of us our "marching orders'. Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts.

~Soren Kierkegaard

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

~Dr. James Dobson

Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

~Mary Lou Retton

Success

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

~Helen Keller

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

~Cary Grant

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

~Albert Einstein

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

~Vince Gill

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

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

~Mary Kay Ash

Happiness

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

~Aristotle

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

~Emily Dickinson

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

~Franklin D. Roosevelt

It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there's always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

~Zig Ziglar

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

~Martha Washington

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

~Mother Theresa

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

~Dalai Lama

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

~Marcus Aurelius

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

~Albert Camus

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

~Anne Frank