Cheerfulness Quotes

Laughter is sunshine in a house.

William Thackeray

He who laughs, lasts.

I love those who can smile in trouble.

Leonardo da Vinci

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

Jimmy Buffett

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Charlotte Brontë

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Edwin Percy Whipple

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Aristotle

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Thomas S Monson

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

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Thomas Carlyle

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

H G Wells

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

Louisa May Alcott

Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.

Grenville Kleiser

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Thomas Fuller

Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent.

Mason Cooley

Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive.

Jean Paul Richter

Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Cheerfulness is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

Arthur Murphy

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Edwin P Whipple

Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good.

J R Miller

A light heart can carry the most weight.

Marty Rubin

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

Tolstoy

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

Lawrence G Lovasik

Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

Samuel Smiles

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

Victor Hugo

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

Charles Dickens

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

Charles Kingsley

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison

Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.

William Cornelius Van Horne

Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

William Makepeace Thackeray

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

Proverbs 15:13

Cheerfulness is the charm of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

John 16:33

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

Proverbs 15:13

Brighten up the world like a little sunbeam.

Terry Pratchett

Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.

B C Forbes

Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.

Alice Hegan Rice

Cheerfulness consists in not regarding things as our own, but as entrusted to us by God for the benefit of our fellow-servants. It consists in scattering them abroad generously with joy and magnanimity, not reluctantly or under compulsion.

Symeon the New Theologian

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

John Ruskin

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Amy Lowell

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Charles Kingsley

Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

William Makepeace Thackeray

To stay cheerful when involved in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds in which high spirits play no part.

Nietzsche

All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

Proverbs 15:15

When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.

Andrea Bocelli

Be cheerful - the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.

Benjamin Franklin

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Charles Spurgeon

Joy is immeasurable cheerfulness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Power dwells with cheerfulness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Health and cheerfulness make beauty.

Miguel de Cervantes

Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.

John Dryden

Gratitude is the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

Adam Smith

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

George Eliot

Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

Jean Paul

Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.

Frederick William Faber

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.

Jacob Moleschott

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

Mark Twain

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

Thomas Carlyle

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Christian Nestell Bovee

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.

Philip Neri

It is the surgeon's duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.

Astley Cooper

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

Samuel Johnson

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

Samuel Johnson

Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.

Saint John Chrysostom

The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene.

Michel de Montaigne

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends.

Thomas Jefferson

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

Joseph Addison

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.

Tony Robbins

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

Thomas More

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

Mary Wortley Montagu

We have a mission to others - to add to their cheer. This we cannot do unless we have first learned the lesson of cheerfulness ourselves.

J R Miller

There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life.

Charles Francis Richter

The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

Bill Vaughan

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Proverbs 17:22

I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

George Matthew Adams

Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.

Jean Paul

Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm.

Wilfred Peterson

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

Goethe

Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.

Louisa May Alcott

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

Joseph Addison

O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness.

William Ellery Channing

A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.

William Osler

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Joseph Addison

When we are filled with the Spirit of God, we are filled with joy, with peace and with happiness no matter what our circumstances may be; for it is a spirit of cheerfulness and of happiness.

George Q Cannon

If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

Mark Twain

All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

Voltaire

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

Seneca the Younger

The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

William James

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Joseph Addison

Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.

Euripides

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

Emerson

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Henry van Dyke

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the offshoot of goodness.

Christian Nestell Boveee

Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.

Mother Teresa

A cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

John Lubbock

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

Joseph Addison

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Helen Keller

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Charles Dickens

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

Emerson