Happiness Quotes

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires."

"The feeling of happiness is seldom the direct object of pursuit."

"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."

"Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness."

"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."

"The greatest good is to be found in the greatest happiness of the greatest number."

"The greatest happiness principle is the foundation of morals and legislation."

"Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove."

"The more happiness, the better; the less misery, the better."

"Every man has a conscience; the strongest incentive is his own happiness."

"The foundation of morality is the pursuit of happiness."

"The highest happiness is reserved for the few; it can never be universal."

"To promote virtue is to promote happiness; to diminish vice is to diminish suffering."

"The happiness of the individual is the happiness of society."

"The greatest good is the absence of pain and the presence of pleasure."

"Happiness is the result of virtue; suffering is the result of vice."

"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."

"A nation's real wealth is measured in the happiness and health of its people."

"I have always believed that nothing really matters except for the satisfaction of the human soul."

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

"Variety is the mother of enjoyment."

"Relaxation and enjoyment form the sweetest things of life."

"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness."

"A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and is certainly accessible to it at more points, than one of an inferior type."

"Pleasure and freedom of the nobler kind is worth something, even to those who are bound by duty."

"It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

"Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove."

"The general tendency of all laws hitherto has been to increase the happiness of the community."

"Imagine all the pleasure you could enjoy and subtract the pain; the remainder is happiness."

"To be happy is to be in control of one's circumstances and desires."