happiness Quotes

The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which... ...

Happiness is a state of activity.

Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as... ...

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.