Happiness Quote by Bertrand Russell

“The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle in a competitive society.”

— Bertrand Russell

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress,…

— S. I. Hayakawa

“The only cure [for envy] in the case of ordinary men and women is happiness, and the difficulty is that envy is itself a…

— Bertrand Russell

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

— Bertrand Russell

“A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.”

— Bernard de Fontanelle

“Negative thoughts are an obstacle to happiness, positive thoughts are a bridge to joy.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Do not allow your pain to be an obstacle to your happiness nor someone's joy.

— Terry Mark

The biggest obstacle to our happiness is under valuing what we have, and over valuing what others have.

— Anonymous

Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.

— Russell Baker

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

— James Purdy

We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is set up.…

— Frederick Lenz

A competitive society is a society of envy.

— Dorothee Solle

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

— Friedrich August von Hayek