Hugh Downs Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Hugh Downs
A happy person is not a person in a
certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a
certain set of attitudes.
- Hugh Downs
Related topics: Positive Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Inspirational Happiness Attitude
Happy Sayings
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama 
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Would you rather be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e. e. cummings
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
When we are happy and serene,
time loses its power over us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course in Miracles
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
I choose to feel supremely happy at this very moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.
- Ernest Holmes
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw
I become happy when I choose to accept and love all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happy Birthday!
Today is YOUR day to Dance Lightly With Life.
Have a wonderful day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
Angry and happy don't mix.
Flush out the angry,
and the happy has a place to put down roots.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Anonymous
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick ourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A happy New Year to all the world.
- Charles Dickens
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree
is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- Burton Hills
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You know you love someone when you know
you want them to be happy,
even if their happiness means
that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous
Today is a perfect day to be happy.
Every day is a perfect day to be happy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin;
what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein
Purpose Sayings
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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