Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.

When I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are the ones that are committed to something bigger than themselves.

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

Happiness is a by-product. It is not a primary product of life. It is a thing which you suddenly realize you have because you're so delighted to be doing something which perhaps has nothing whatever to do with happiness.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

I thought happiness came from achievement.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

The great happiness in life is not to donate but to serve.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives.

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.

Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest sports car, you don't need the biggest house. The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?...Offering others what you have to give...I don't mean money, Mitch. I mean your time. Your concern. Your storytelling. It's not so hard.

Happiness is living by inner purpose.

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .

Our goal should be to achieve joy.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.