Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money.

I can't rely on my money to be happy.

Success isn't about things we acquire.

I'm sure, ever since I was really young, that happiness is not a bottle of champagne and a girl and a limousine and a swimming pool.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when... When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job. When I get the relationship,’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.

I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.