Own Happiness Quotes
158 Own Happiness quotes by 115 unique authors
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and…
— Irving Babbitt
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Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and…
— Lysander Spooner
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The wise person understands that his own happiness must include the happiness of others.
— Dennis Weaver
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I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal…
— Martin Sheen
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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…
— Sissela Bok
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect…
— David Hume
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think…
— Dalai Lama
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I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground similar to that…
— Henry Sidgwick
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I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give…
— Ayn Rand
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Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.
— Alexander Hamilton
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My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took…
— Margot Asquith
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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
— Seneca the Younger
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All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by…
— Samuel Johnson
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Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared…
— Samuel Johnson
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There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The secret is this. You make your own happiness.
— Harold Klemp
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My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that…
— Jennifer Garner
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Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness,…
— Michael J. Fox
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If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.
— G.A. Henty
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your…
— Woodrow Wilson
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How do you spell love?... when you reach the point where the happiness, security and development of another person is as much of a driving…
— Josh McDowell
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He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.
— Gautama Buddha
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To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another's unhappiness. So then, what exactly should I pray for? Since I couldn't pray for…
— Chica Umino
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