“Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Books, Coningsby (1844), Lothair (1870)
Variant: Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Og Mandino book The Greatest Salesman in the World
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 16 : The Scroll Marked IX, p. 95.
Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian
As long as you are enslaved to the external situation, you will always be in some level of suffering because the outside situation is never going to be hundred percent in your control.
Encounter the Enlightened (2001)
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Happiness
“Happiness happens by chance, and is not a law or the logical consequences of actions.”
Elfriede Jelinek (1946) Austrian writer
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Women As Lovers (1994)
“That Action is best, which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers”
Francis Hutcheson (philosopher) (1694–1746) Irish philosopher
An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) Treatise II, Section 3
Context: That Action is best, which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers; and that worst, which, in like manner, occasions Misery.
Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
