Dayananda Saraswati Quotes

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.

She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty.

I've worked very hard, but my life's always been fun.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Fun and pleasure are just as delicious as achieving a goal.

I'd be lying if I said the success means nothing to me. It does. I enjoy it and live a pretty great life.

I'd rather say that had the going not been tough, perhaps it wouldn't have been as enjoyable.

You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.

It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.

I'm happy, certainly, given the times we're living in, to be doing OK, and to not be worrying about money, and to be producing something I enjoy.

Pleasure itself is not a vice

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .

Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.

To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them; 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.