Happy Against Their Will

You cannot make somebody happy against his or her will. 

Those who feel—sometimes quite correctly—that they wield power through expressed or implicit unhappiness are not going to put that power at risk by cheering up.  

The Perfect and the Good

It is said we should not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.  

Correct, but on the other hand, neither should one let the barely adequate become the enemy of the good.