Cheerfulness Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cheerfulness Fortune Joy Thinking Wealth
Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue. — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden....… — Julie Moir Messervy Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control… — William James Copy Share Image
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The people that humanity needs most are those who manage to be cheerful even on a frightening dark street, because high morale is the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image