Happiness Quotes

"The greatest good for the greatest number."

"Pleasure and pain are the consequence of action."

"He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper"

"An Englishman is the healthiest, happiest, and most independent of all beings"

"The highest good must include happiness in proportion to virtue."

"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."

"Happiness never results from what we get, but from what we give."

"It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can."

"Happiness is not a goal but a byproduct of purposeful action."

"Happiness dwells in the pursuit of truth, not in its possession."

"Joy is a man's passage from a lesser to a greater perfection."

"The greatest good is pursued through the love of something eternal and infinite."

"The desire to live happily is the basis of all human morality."

"Joy is the transition of the mind to a state of greater perfection."

"Without security, there can be no liberty, no happiness, no virtue."

"The true and only way to happiness is virtue combined with prudence."

"The pursuit of happiness begins with the pursuit of justice."

"Happiness is the fruit of freedom."

"Establish yourself in ways of pleasantness and all things will be added unto you."

"The great source of pleasure is variety."

"True happiness is not the fruit of ease and indolence, but of usefulness and virtue."

"Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination."

"The pursuit of happiness often leads us away from it."

"Happiness is the state of mind most productive of virtue."

"No man can be happy who constantly regards himself as an object of animosity."

"Joy is a transition to a state of greater perfection."

"Happiness consists in the power to preserve one's own being; unhappiness consists in diminishing that power."

"The joy that comes from understanding is the highest form of pleasure."

"Happiness never relies so much upon our condition as upon our disposition."

"The chief part of human happiness arises from the consciousness of being loved."