A Quote by Walter Lippmann

All achievement should be measured in human happiness.

Walter Lippmann

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Walter Lippmann
American - Journalist
September 23, 1889 - December 14, 1974

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Theodor Reik

Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content. Paulo Coelho Quotes From Like the Flowing River “Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

Paulo Coelho

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

Helen Keller

Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Ayn Rand

Life is measured in achievement not in years alone

Bruce McLaren

Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

Safra A. Catz

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things will get better. For pessimists, there is no amount of happiness—should such a thing as happiness even obtain for human beings except as a misconception—that can compensate us for life’s hurt.

Thomas Ligotti

There are so many different ways in which someone is 'intelligent.' In my opinion this doesn't always have to be measured by academic achievement.

Stacey Solomon

My happiness is measured against my kids' happiness - when they're in a good place, I feel really good.

Michelle Obama

She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.

Ayn Rand

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