Quotes on Virtue And Happiness

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

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.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods such as moments, days, or years? And to what extent are virtue and happiness linked?

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.