Virtue And Happiness Quotes

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that 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.

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.

Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.

A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

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...

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.

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.

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

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

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.

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

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

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

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

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness - these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

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.

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

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

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.