Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
“He looked cheerful, as though he was with an imaginary friend whose company he enjoyed.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises? — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
The bells which toll for mankind are—most of them, anyway—like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with… — Solon Copy Share Image
Never worry. Be ever cheerful. Always laugh and smile. You can use the following powerful autosuggestion: "Mr. Worry, goodbye to you. I… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Confidence and courage are special skills to the art ... Within the four walls of his study, the artist should be modest,… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says:… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already… — Adeline Yen Mah Copy Share Image
The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was… — Frederic William Maitland Copy Share Image
Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
