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Quotes About Cheer

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
~ Henry Adams
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness is pleasure without regret
~ Leo Tolstoy
Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light on all around her.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It's Christmas again, time to celebrate the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge. You know the ritual: boo the curmudgeon initially encountered in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, then cheer the sweetie pie he becomes in the end. It's too bad no one notices that the curmudgeon had a point -- quite a few points, in fact.
~ levin michael
Seeing the funny side of life is useful, and I've always had a sense of humour.
~ Henry Allingham
Everywhere the woman went she drew her little rainbow of happiness along with her
~ Janette Oke
Cheer up ye saints of God, There's nothing to worry about; Nothing to make you feel afraid, Nothing to make you doubt; Remember Jesus saves you; So why not trust him and shout, You'll be sorry you worried at all, tomorrow, morning.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Great groups are more optimistic than realistic. They believe they can do what no one else has done before. "And the optimists, even when their good cheer is unwarranted, accomplish more," says Warren.
~ Tom Kelley
She took care of evyone with the same no-nonsense air of friendliness and good cheer that made her seem so paradoxically wholesome, as if she were convinced that being a slut and being a really nice person were just two things that naturally went together.
~ Tom Perrotta
The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.
~ Tom Robbins
I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.
~ Tom Waits
A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!
~ Tom Wilson
Life's only true requirement: be happy.
~ Unknown
she counted out five sweets and put them on a saucer. Then she went and put them on the ledge in the cliff to cheer him up.
~ Tove Jansson
Well now, if that ain't a ray of sunshine," one of the men declared.
~ Tracie Peterson
What is life without laughter?
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
It's nice to dream that we will have plenty of time in the future to do our travelling and that, one day, we will travel. It cheers us up because we know that we are capable of doing more than we do. Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.
~ Paulo Coelho
Trying to cheer yourself up isn't easy, and sometimes it feels hypocritical, like going against the grain. But the reminder is that if you want to change your habitual stuckness, you're the only one who can do it.
~ Pema Chodron
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
~ William Hazlitt
Doctors tend to enter the arenas of their profession's practice with a brisk good cheer that they have to then stop and try to mute a bit when the arena they're entering is a hospital's fifth floor, a psych ward, where brisk good cheer would amount to a kind of gloating. This
~ David Foster Wallace
conspicuously perched in the eye of a bad party's somewhat forced-feeling storm of wit and good cheer
~ David Foster Wallace
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray