Happy Disposition Quotes

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  I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

  Martha Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.279, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

  William Arthur Ward

  Positive, Happiness, Appreciation

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• Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

  Dan Millman

  Love, Happiness, Being Happy

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.276, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

  Plato

  Optimism, Age, Pressure

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.211, Xist Publishing

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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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• We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Happiness, Happy, Wish

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• I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

  Martha Washington

  Happiness, Happy, Attitude

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• There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors. But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Love, Strong, Men

  "De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties". Book by Claude Adrien Helvétius, 1758.

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• Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

  Jane Austen

  Clever, Home, Blessing

  Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.2, MobileReference

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• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wisdom, Peace, War

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.

  Henry Wood

  Inspirational, Happiness, Heart

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• My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.

  Jane Pauley

  Dad, Father, Confused

  "Jane Pauley Says Goodbye". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com. May 30.

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• But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Instruction, Disposition

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.79

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• You owe others a happy disposition

  Dennis Prager

  Disposition

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• Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Struggle, Wish, Helping

  Phyllis Bottome (1930). “Tatter'd Loving”

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