Quotes About Happiness

Felicity, therefore (by which we mean continual delight), consisteth not in having prospered, but in prospering

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

It turns out that those with the most money, those who are in a position to buy their happiness, don't. And they don't buy expensive wine either.

There is no significant correlation between the make [brand] of motor vehicle you drive and your level of happiness with life.

Happy people tend to live well below their means. I have found this to be the case in all of the studies I have conducted.

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. —Henry David Thoreau

It is my belief that the number of households in America that are interested in looking wealthy is far greater than the number that are interested in being wealthy. p122

My surveys indicate that there is a significant correlation between income and satisfaction with life. In other words, earning more money may make you somewhat happier, but spending that money (particularly on cars) won't. If we make the appropriate statistical adjustments for income differences in life satisfaction, then we find that the average satisfaction among Toyota drivers [vs BMW] is higher. p173

Measure your own value in terms of the security and happiness of those who depend on you.

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. (A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.)

The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty, which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself everything but health, without which there is no happiness.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

I am convinced that those societies which live without government enjoy in their gen'l mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it may have ordained that the fall of the wicked shall be the rise of the good. To J. Correa de Serra, Monticello, Apr. 19, 1814

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.