Cheerfulness Quotes

178 Cheerfulness quotes by 132 unique authors

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for… — Charles Caleb Colton
I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not… — Banana Yoshimoto
Jamie was more than just the woman I loved. In the year Jamie helped me become the man I am today. With her steady hand… — Nicholas Sparks
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does… — Epictetus
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. — Charles Dickens
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain… — Mark Twain
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. — Maya Angelou
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? They have… — E. M. Forster
You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be… — George MacDonald
. Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound… — Hermann Hesse
...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice… — M.M. Kaye
Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness. — Sri Chinmoy
Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail. — Sri Chinmoy
She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable,… — Jane Austen
Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet.… — Margaret George
Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does… — Mother Teresa
That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a… — Unknown Author
The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already… — William James
Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends — Thomas Jefferson
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. — Joseph Addison
Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. — Edwin Percy Whipple

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