Cheerfulness Quotes

It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.

— James Russell Lowell

“Brighten up the world like a little sunbeam.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Where there is contentment, there is cheerfulness.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Head up. Shoulders back. Tomorrow is a new day.

— Mee

Power dwells with cheerfulness.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Cheerfulness is charming.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.

— Proverb

Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.

— Jean Paul

The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

— William James

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

— Louisa May Alcott

Determined cheerfulness is something I happen to do very well.

— Rachel Parris

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

— John Selden

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.

— Louisa May Alcott

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

— Irving Kristol

Rally GB is obviously very special to me, so I am very much looking forward to competing in my home event and…

— Colin McRae

Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone…

— Earl Nightingale

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

— Michel De Montaigne

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.…

— Paul Fleischman

Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because…

— William Cornelius Van Horne

Then let not what I cannot have My cheer of mind destroy. Whilst thus I sing, I am a king, Although a…

— Colley Cibber

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

— Victor Hugo

A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner,…

— Ambrose Bierce

Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants.…

— Symeon the New Theologian

The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable...…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I…

— Mark Twain

I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

It's been a long time since I've stood on a stage in London. Was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was…

— Leonard Cohen

That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small…

— Maria Edgeworth

“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that…

— Charles Dickens

“Men achieve cheerfulness by moderation in pleasure and by proportion in their life excess and deficiency are apt to fluctuate and cause…

— Democritus

The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time…

— Arthur Koestler

If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the…

— Ruth Stout

The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who…

— Agnes Repplier

“Moderation and limitation represent the highest with regard to human strivings. If also an infinite longing never abandons the person because he…

— Helmuth Plessner

Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts…

— Henry Ward Beecher

In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the question. He…

— Basil King