Cheerfulness Quote by Charles Dickens

“It is our duty to seek to acquire the art of being cheerful. It will hold in check the demons of despair and stifle…

— David O. McKay

O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our…

— William Ellery Channing

Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each…

— Arthur Helps

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

— Charles Kingsley

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

— Paul Tillich

“To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.”

— Thomas S. Monson

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…

— Symeon the New Theologian

Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

— C. S. Lewis

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

— Plautus

In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good…

— George Santayana