Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of…

— Adam Smith

“Unsavoury as it is below, there is cheerfulness, and comfort, and hard, honest work above. ("In The Court Of The Dragon")”

— Robert W. Chambers

Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden……

— Julie Moir Messervy

The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear…

— Michel De Montaigne

When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice,…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“Pursued by grace and supernatural power from God, I will passionately pursued my most cherished dreams.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Not Diana herself, although this was more of a Venus after all, could have done a graceful thing more gracefully. ”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair…

— Pierre de Coubertin

Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them,…

— Plato

'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“The day we decide to drop the flimsy makeshift scenarios in our cluttered mind and eschew the ‘alleluias’ of self-importance, life can become genuine,…

— Erik Pevernagie

“There are gentler and more graceful ways to interface with natural conflict.”

— Bryant McGill

Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.

— Gracie Gold