Quotes About Happiness

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

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Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, that's when he won't want to leave your side. When you are happy, you are sexy.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!

Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.

To laugh is proper to man.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.