Thomas Jefferson Happiness Quotations

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as steadfastly believe

Believing that happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.

You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.

It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.

I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.