Martha Washington famous quotes

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
-- Martha Washington

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Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
-- Martha Washington

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I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands.
-- Martha Washington

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I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
-- Martha Washington

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I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
-- Martha Washington

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I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.
-- Martha Washington

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I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.
-- Martha Washington

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We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
-- Martha Washington

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I am only fond of what comes from the heart.
-- Martha Washington

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The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.

The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them....