James Weldon Johnson Quotes

It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time - and they feel that you are trying - to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself.

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

My main goal in life is to be happy. If I can make other people happy by doing what I love, then I feel like I've done everything in life that I've wanted. I just want to make people feel good and change people's lives with music, and that's it.

A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.

People discover that by helping others, even when they themselves are suffering, they end up improving their own lives.

We are all so preoccupied with ourselves. How can I get happy, how can I find the job I love, how can I become a millionaire, how can lose weight. Yet, the reality is that fulfillment, success and all of these good things comes from trying to help those that we care about to achieve those things.

Ever since I was young, I have wanted to help others live happy, healthy, fulfilling lives.

I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.

I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that's sort of how you're supposed to live.

The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be able to make others happy. If I'm not happy, I can't make other people happy.

To be happy, make other people happy.

That's what my life has come down to - how can I have fun for me, be with my friends and my family, and how can I help other people.

In order to be the best version of yourself, you have to dedicate time, effort, and support to other people who need it.

You can't live for other people, you know? You gotta live for yourself and better the people around you and make an impact.

You've got to make yourself happy. I'm a happy person naturally.

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time.

Nothing is going to make you happier in your life than giving

If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else.

The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.

There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.