Quotes about Happiness
The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
— Thomas Jefferson
The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
— John Adams
An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.
— E Stanley Jones
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions
— Aristotle
Only He who made man makes man happy.
— St. Augustine
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
— Vance Havner
The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
— William Barclay
A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.
— Charles Spurgeon
Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
— CS Lewis
Account no man happy till he dies.
— Euripides
For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'
— Fyodor Dostoevsky