Famous Quotes
- The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson on Happiness
- The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
- William Godwin on Happiness
- The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
- Jesse Ventura on Happiness
- The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin on Happiness
- The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
- Quentin Crisp on Happiness
- The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.
- Winifred Holtby on Happiness
- The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
- Sidney Sheldon on Happiness
- The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
- Pierre De Coubertin on Happiness
- The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin on Happiness
- The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
- Emanuel Swedenborg on Happiness
- The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
- The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.
- The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
- Andre Maurois on Happiness
- The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
- The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
- Bryant McGill on Happiness
- The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne on Happiness
- The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
- Omar Bongo on Happiness
- The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
- The gratification of desire is not happiness.
- Daisaku Ikeda on Happiness
- The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
- Thomas Huxley on Happiness
- The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
- Martha Washington on Happiness
- The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
- Walter Annenberg on Happiness
- The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky on Happiness
- The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
- Madame De Stael on Happiness
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo on Happiness
- The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
- Jeremy Bentham on Happiness
- The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Happiness
- The groundwork of all happiness is health.
- Leigh Hunt on Happiness
- The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Happiness
- The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
- The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson on Happiness
- The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton on Happiness
- The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Happiness
- The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
- Ernest Dimnet on Happiness
- The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda on Happiness
- The happiness of society is the end of government.
- John Adams on Happiness
- The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
- Jacques Yves Cousteau on Happiness
- The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
- Jonathan Edwards on Happiness
- The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
- Elbert Hubbard on Happiness
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius on Happiness
- The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
- Joseph Roux on Happiness
- The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Happiness
- The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
- Marguerite Duras on Happiness
- The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
- Walter Benjamin on Happiness
- The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
- Rutherford B. Hayes on Happiness
- The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford on Happiness
- The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
- George Eliot on Happiness
- The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
- Charles Van Doren on Happiness
- The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
- Gertrude Jekyll on Happiness
- The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
- Gilbert Murray on Happiness
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