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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• 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, 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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• 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 don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

  Dan Harmon

  People, Feelings, Individual

  "How Dan Harmon Drives Himself Crazy Making Community" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. September 22, 2011.

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• I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.

  Norval Morrisseau

  Laughter, Communication, Compassion

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• Just try to make people happy.

  Zach Sobiech

  People, Trying

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• Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy.  Undeniably, art is not optional.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Art, People, Understanding

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• Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I'm happy with that.

  Mike Tyson

  People, Pay, Bills

  Source: collider.com

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• Good relationships make people happy, and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people.... Conflicts in relationships--having an annoying office mate or roommate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse--is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. You never adapt to interpersonal conflict; it damages every day, even days when you don't see the other person but ruminate about the conflict nonetheless.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Happiness, People, Good Relationship

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• I don't need millions of dollars. I need to know that what I'm doing with my life is expressing who I am, and maybe making people happy. This is all we get.

  Felicia Day

  Who I Am, People, Dollars

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I want to be a positive force in the world, I would like to make people happy.

  Jim Carrey

  People, World, Want

  "Dr Seuss' Horton Hears A Who - Jim Carrey interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

  Mason Cooley

  Happy, People, Doe

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• I'm always trying to make people happy, that's really my theme on Vine. I always say I love life like crazy and I want people to love life like crazy too.

  Jerome Jarre

  Crazy, Love Life, Always Trying

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• I was that kid. I was entertaining everybody in the living room and throwing myself down flights of stairs and making the family look special and making my mother feel better and I really wanted to make people happy. That has been my ministry my whole life. I call it The Church of F.F.C. - The Church of Freedom From Concern. And I'm a high priest in that church.

  Jim Carrey

  Mother, Kids, Feel Better

  "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 24, 2013.

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• [The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, People, Suffering

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.

  Amanda Palmer

  People, Needs, Want

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• What we do is a calling...we make people happy.

  Joan Rivers

  People, Calling

  "Here's An Amazing Scene From 'Louie' In Which Joan Rivers Explains Why She's A Comedian" by Aly Weisman, www.businessinsider.com. September 4, 2014.

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• All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they are now; and they are possible to them chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over plowshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope: these are the things that make people happy.

  John Ruskin

  Happiness, Real, Thinking

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• That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Commitment, Opportunity, People

  "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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