Cheerfulness Quotes - page 3

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. (Arthur Murphy)
Cheerfulness is often a cloak that hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God. View quote
Mother Teresa
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. View quote
William Osler
Whatever happens, I will not let my cheerfulness be disturbed. Being unhappy won't get me anywhere and will dissipate all my goodness. Why be unhappy about something if you can change it? And if you can't, how will being unhappy help? View quote
Shantideva
I don't know what to do,” he said. "No harm in that. I've never known what to do,” said Rincewind with hollow cheerfulness. "Been completely at a loss my whole life.” He hesitated. "I think it's called being human, or something. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness an open and noble temper. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman repose in energy. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy. View quote
Euripides
Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness. View quote
Frank Crowninshield
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. (Charles Dickens)
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. View quote
Charles Dickens
Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done. View quote
Mark Twain
A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation. View quote
Mark Twain
I do not regret the sufferings and peculiaties of my physical constitution. They have taught me, and continue to teach me, that which I think nothing else could have developed. It is a force and control put upon me by Providence which I must obey. And the effects of this continual disciple of facts are mighty. They tame the in the best sense of that word, and they fan into existence a pure, bright, holy, unselfish flame within that sheds cheerfulness and light on many. View quote
Ada Lovelace
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait. View quote
Walt Whitman
As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness. View quote
Pliny the Elder
Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness. View quote
Hugh Blair
Cheerfulness is not a sin. It drives away weariness, and it is from weariness that despondency comes. View quote
Seraphim of Sarov
Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness. (John Chrysostom)
As Dr. Black had never anything for ostentation, he was at all times precisely what the occasion required, and no more. Never did anyone see Dr. Black hurried at one time to recover matter which had been improperly neglected on a former occasion. Everything being done in its proper season and place, he ever seemed to have leisure in store; and he was ready to receive his friend or acquaintance, and to take his part with cheerfulness in any conversation that occurred. View quote
Joseph Black
The spirit of fellowship, with its attendant cheerfulness, is in the air. It is comparatively easy to love one's neighbor when we realize that he and we are common servants and common sufferers in the same cause. A deep breath of that spirit has passed into the life of England. No doubt the same thing has happened elsewhere. View quote
L. P. Jacks
With all my wiry power and strength, I am prone at times to bodily sufferings, connected chiefly with the digestive organs, of no common degree or king. I do not regret the sufferings and peculiaties of my physical constitution. They have taught me, and continue to teach me, that which I think nothing else could have developed. It is a force and control put upon me by Providence which I must obey. And the effects of this continual disciple of facts are mighty. They tame the in the best sense of that word, and they fan into existence a pure, bright, holy, unselfish flame within that sheds cheerfulness and light on many. - Ever yours truly. "A. A. Lovelace." View quote
Ada Lovelace