Happiness Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

— Benjamin Franklin

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

— Benjamin Franklin

Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.

— Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that's content hath enough.

— Benjamin Franklin

The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.

— Benjamin Franklin

Happy's the Wooing, that's not long a doing

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

— Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

— Benjamin Franklin

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it…

— Benjamin Franklin

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon…

— Benjamin Franklin

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is…

— Benjamin Franklin

The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have…

— Benjamin Franklin

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do -…

— Benjamin Franklin

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen…

— Benjamin Franklin

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause…

— Benjamin Franklin

On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of…

— Benjamin Franklin

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of…

— Benjamin Franklin

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a…

— Benjamin Franklin

Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy…

— Benjamin Franklin

You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By…

— Benjamin Franklin

With regard to future bliss, I cannot help imagining that multitudes of the zealously orthodox of different sects, who at the last…

— Benjamin Franklin

I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those…

— Benjamin Franklin

“There are two ways of being happy: We may either diminish our wants or augment our means- either will do- the result…

— Benjamin Franklin

Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.

— Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me…

— Benjamin Franklin

Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.

— Benjamin Franklin