Happy People Quotes - Page 7

• Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Player, Games

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• Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Buddhism

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• Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.

  Iimani David

  People, Unhappy, Cards

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• Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Happiness, People, Moments

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.753, Stanford University Press

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• Our happy God should be worshiped by a happy people.

  Charles Spurgeon

  People, Should

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Spurgeon on the Psalms: Book Four”, p.211, Bridge Logos Inc

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• The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Disappointment, Children, People

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2016). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.209, First Avenue Editions

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• No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.

  John Ruskin

  Dark, Views, People

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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• The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

  George Washington

  Education, Mean, People

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.28, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.

  Rick Warren

  Helping Others, People, Purpose Driven Life

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• Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Thinking, People, World

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.69, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential.

  Marianne Williamson

  Organization, People, Unhappy

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• Finally, it is my most fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in His hands from the infancy of our Republic to the present day, that He will so overrule all my intentions and actions and inspire the hearts of my fellow-citizens that we may be preserved from dangers of all kinds and continue forever a united and happy people.

  Andrew Jackson

  Prayer, Heart, Hands

  United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson), Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual Messages, Veto Messages, Proclamation, & C”, p.149

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• Happy people attract other happy people. Show the world your smile, and the world will smile back.

  Denise Austin

  Happiness, Smile, People

  FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Oct 20, 2010

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• There are no happy endings, there are only happy people.

  Dorothy Gilman

  People, Happy Endings

  "Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station".

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• I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You see, life is a battlefield. Life is survival of the fittest... How many healthy people do you know? How many happy people do you know? Think about it. People work at dying, they don't work at living. My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

  Jack LaLanne

  Workout, Thinking, America

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• The happy people are those who are producing something.

  William Ralph Inge

  Inspirational, People

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• Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people.

  Lew Hunter

  People, Village, Crafts

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• A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Unhappy, Charity

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.17, Vintage

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• The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.

  Clare Morrall

  People, World, Characteristics

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• We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

  Erich Fromm

  Lonely, People, Unhappy

  Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have or To Be?”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Collectors are happy people.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Collectors

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• Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.

  Frank Pittman

  Sweat, People, Activity

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• Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

  Guy Sajer

  Happiness, Death, Time

  Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.98, Potomac Books, Inc.

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• All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

  Dennis Prager

  Happiness, Ungrateful People, Adversity

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 30, 2016

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