Benjamin Franklin Happiness Quotations

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

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.

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

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.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

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.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of 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.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of 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.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

You may be more happy than Princes, if you will be more virtuous.