Cheerfulness Quotes

178 Cheerfulness quotes by 132 unique authors

[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought… — Arthur Helps
If you are happy, happiness will come to you because happiness wants to go where happiness is. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining… — Roger Angell
Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult… — Pema Chodron
The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times… — Herbert Hoover
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort… — Arthur Koestler
Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and… — William Makepeace Thackeray
This can be one of cheerfulness or gloom because color which is so inexpensive, is what does the trick. Not color alone but color plus… — Dorothy Draper
Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts. — Elizabeth Ann Seton
Things of the spirit are what count: brotherhood – in a day when there is too much hatred at home and abroad; cheerfulness – in… — E. Urner Goodman
I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what counts more than… — Stephen Fry
Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times?… — Pearl S. Buck
Wherefore give all diligence to the Spirit's motion and leadings, what it moves against, and what it leads to; for now will God make all… — James Nayler
Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of… — Elwyn Brooks White
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness. — Frederick William Faber
A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful. — Beverly Sills
The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the… — Thomas Love Peacock
With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured… — Charles Simeon
Whatever happens, I will not let my cheerfulness be disturbed. Being unhappy won't get me anywhere and will dissipate all my goodness. Why be unhappy… — Shantideva
Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants. It consists in… — Symeon the New Theologian
Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned… — Kate Millett

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