Making People Happy Quotes

• What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, People, Evil

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• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  Saint Augustine

  Happiness, Happy, Determination

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• Whoever is happy will make others happy.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Anne Frank (1952). “The diary of a young girl”

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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Happiness, Philosophical

  Karl Marx, Loyd David Easton, Kurt H. Guddat (1997). “Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society”, p.39, Hackett Publishing

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• I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

  Buddy Guy

  Happiness, Smile, Music

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• I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

  Thomas Kinkade

  People, Matter, Common

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• How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

  Gail Godwin

  People, Needs, Want

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• I had no special training at all; I am completely self-taught. I don’t fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic designer. I just had a strong concept about what a game designer is – someone who designs projects to make people happy. That’s his purpose.

  Toru Iwatani

  Art, Strong, Self

  "Toru Iwatani, 1986 PacMan Designer". Interview with Susan Lammers, programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.

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• I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy and entertain them, without really being there. You can make a very short appearance and then say, 'I've got something on the stove, gotta go!

  Giada De Laurentiis

  People, Kitchen, Shy

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• I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Sorry, Like Love, People

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• Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.

  Peter Weiss

  Art, Blessed, Games

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• Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?

  Kate Hudson

  Blessing, People, Knows

  "Crossing the Hudson", www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2005.

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• And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.

  Billy Ocean

  Spiritual, Doctors, People

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• Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they themselves have brought us their freedom and obediently laid it at our feet. It is our doing, but is it what you wanted? This sort of freedom?' Again I don't understand', Alyosha interrupted, 'Is he being ironic? Is he laughing?' Not in the least. He precisely lays it to his and his colleagues' credit that they have finally overcome freedom, and have done so in order to make people happy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Order, Feet, People

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• Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.

  Anurag Kashyap

  People, Definitions, Entertainment

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• I only want my work to make people happy.

  Jackie Chan

  People, Want, Martial Arts

  Twitter post from Jan 08, 2014

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• The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.

  James Surowiecki

  Lying, Procrastination, Thinking

  "Later". www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

  Thomas Huxley

  Things In Life, People, Unhappy

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

  Yoko Ono

  Names, People, Signing

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• Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.

  David Lynch

  Fall, Cutting, Cupcakes

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• I believe that food is one way to make people happy. I also believe that food can unite people from all walks of life and cultures. When we sit together and eat, we promote better understanding and harmony.Food brings love, peace and compassion to the table.

  Chef Wan

  Love, Life, Happiness

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