Happiness Quotes

Is it a destination or a practice? These quotes explore the most sought-after human experience.

18390 quotes

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."
Benjamin Franklin
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself."
Thomas Paine
"The greatest good for the greatest number."
Thomas Jefferson
"I believe that every man, without exception, desires happiness."
Thomas Jefferson
"Practice yourself to be always cheerful under all circumstances."
Thomas Jefferson
G
"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
George Washington
E
"I hold that a woman has a right to the pursuit of happiness as much as a man does."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"I have found the way that leads to peace and happiness."
Sojourner Truth
"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
Benjamin Franklin
"There are two ways of being happy: we must either diminish our wants or augment our means."
Benjamin Franklin
"Wine is a constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."
Benjamin Franklin
"He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast."
Benjamin Franklin
"Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day."
Benjamin Franklin
A
"Trifles make up the happiness of human life."
Alexander Hamilton
"Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind."
Thomas Jefferson
"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."
Thomas Jefferson
"I have found that the greatest joy comes from helping others to find their freedom."
Sojourner Truth
"I have found that the greatest joy comes from knowing that I have helped to make the world a better place."
Sojourner Truth
"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."
Benjamin Franklin
"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."
Benjamin Franklin
A
"The pursuit of happiness is meaningless without the pursuit of virtue."
Alexander Hamilton
G
"The aggregate happiness of society is or ought to be the end of all government."
George Washington
E
"The greatest happiness I have ever known has been the cultivation of my mind."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."
Thomas Jefferson
"An institution to promote the public happiness should promote virtue."
Thomas Jefferson
"I have learned from experience that a very small income is not necessarily an obstacle to happiness."
Thomas Jefferson
G
"It is the duty of all men to endeavor to remove those obstacles which stand between mankind and felicity."
George Washington
E
"Woman's true happiness must rest upon the foundation of her own respect."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"A mind always employed is always happy."
Thomas Jefferson
F
"A cheerful eye indicates general happiness."
Frederick Douglass