We must be doing something to be happy.

Quote by William Hazlitt

Topics: Action Quotes, Happiness Quotes

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

It is not the errors of others, but our own miscalculations, on which we wreak...

It is not the errors of others, but our own miscalculations, on which we wreak...

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have...

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have...

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from...

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from...

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with...

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with...

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to...

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to...

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end...

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end...

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not...

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not...

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my...

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my...

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.

Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I...

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I...

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and...

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and...