Quotes About Cheerfulness

Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

The religion of cheerfulness, as Father Brown reminds us, is a cruel religion, and maybe the best way not to go mad is not to mind too much if you do go mad."2

My wife is a fantastic traveller. She's good fun and very optimistic. Even if things get bad, she's good at seeing the light side.

Smiles are very contagious so infect everyone with your smiles.

I'm a normal person, and I like living this way - and always with a smile in my face.

I love being around positive people and making people smile.

We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

The soul in which philosophy dwells should by its health make even the body healthy. It should make its tranquillity and gladness shine out from within; should form in its own mold the outward demeanor, and consequently arm it with a graceful pride, an active and joyous bearing, and a contented and good-natured countenance. The surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness.

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.... The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

We lunched alone, and as we all exerted ourselves to be cheerful, we got, as some kind of reward for our labours, some real cheerfulness amongst us.

He is gallantly smiling, ineluctably smiling, as if to say 'I will be smiling forever.

You didn't have to know Pilu for long to see that he floated through life like a coconut on the ocean. He always bobbed up. There was some sort of natural spring of cheerfulness that bubbled to the surface. Sadness was like a cloud across the sun, soon past. Sorrow was tucked away somewhere in his head, locked up in a cage with a blanket over it, like the captain's parrot.

I could more label myself as even a spokeswoman for happiness!

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Among the Huguenots he learned to be gentle and courteous; to bear himself among his elders respectfully, but without fear or shyness; to consider that, while all things were of minor consequence in comparison to the right to worship God in freedom and purity, yet that a man should be fearless of death, ready to defend his rights, but with moderation and without pushing them to the injury of others; that he should be grave and decorous of speech, and yet of a gay and cheerful spirit.

It is quite possible to be a good Christian without ceasing to be a happy, merry-hearted man.

Most of the work of carrying on the world is necessarily hard and dull and routine in character: and for it the world needs us men and women who can steel our souls against weariness and monotony, and press forward with good cheer.