Cheerfulness Quotes

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

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

Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

What you must do, do cheerfully.

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others.

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

[Gratitude is] the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Power dwells with cheerfulness.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

A college joke to cure the dumps.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.