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Quotes About Cheerfulness

I've always been motivated and I've never lost my smile.
~ Marcelo
Most thoughtful,...[he said] politely. This cheerfulness was ambiguous, Had she determined to ignore ...[the] coup entirely--an established tactic, most irritating to the innovator but hard to sustain over long periods of time--or had she already evolved her counter-strategy?
~ Tom Holt
Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution'—she was saying it wrong. I scowled—'will bring you victory, my dear.
~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Years back someone said cod liver oil was the cure-all! Cheerfulness is more palliative and with no unpleasant aftertaste.
~ Sr. Mary Christelle Macaluso
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
~ Joseph Addison
The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Cheerfulness is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
~ Anonymous
He laughs best whose laugh lasts.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Your morning thoughts may determine your conduct for the day. Optimistic thoughts will make your day bright and productive, while pessimistic thinking will make it dull and wasteful. Face each day cheerfully, smilingly and courageously, and it will naturally follow that your work will be a real pleasure and progress will be a delightful accomplishment.
~ William M. Peck
The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces; let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
~ Charles Victor Cherbuliez
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thy allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
~ Martial
With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.
~ Charles Simeon
A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.
~ Hosea Ballou
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
To the Yogi everything is bliss, every human face that he sees brings cheerfulness to him. That is the sign of a virtuous man.
~ Swami Vivekananda
When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion. To the Yogi everything is bliss, every human face that he sees brings cheerfulness to him.
~ Swami Vivekananda
had to tell Jimmy to lighten up
~ Nelson DeMille
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
~ Lady Marguerite Blessington
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Carry sunshine with you, Brother, as you go; Cheerfulness will lighten Many a weight of woe. Angels guard the pathway Darkened by our fears, Sunshine makes a rainbow Even of our tears.
~ Susan E. Gammons
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter... It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world; some people go through life creaking.
~ Friendly Calendar, 1911
Real happiness is more of a habit than a goal, more of an attitude than an attainment. It is the companion of cheerfulness, not the creature of circumstance. Happiness is what overtakes us when we forget ourselves, when we learn to open our eyes in optimism and close the door in the face of defeat.
~ William Arthur Ward