Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Happiness
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We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.
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By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
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In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.
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A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
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Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.
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Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
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If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.
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What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.
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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
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The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
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Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
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Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
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If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.
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On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.
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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
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I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States
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