The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

giving up what you want most for what you want now can deprive you of life’s real treasures.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Unhappiness comes from wanting what others have. Happiness comes from wanting what you already have.

four basic causes of failure: sex, alcohol, deception, and stealing.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

The only reason we don't have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can't have them.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when overtaken by temporary defeat.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. There is the situation or the fact, and here are my thoughts about it. Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

It is assumed by many reformers that the principal and major cause of unhappiness is economic insecurity, but this theory forgets that there are economic problems only because men have not solved the problems of their own souls. Economic disorder is a symptom of spiritual disorder.

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.