Cheerful Quotes - Page 3

Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.‎

What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.

Of this you may be certain: The Lord especially loves righteous women-women who are not only faithful but filled with faith, women who are optimistic and cheerful because they know who they are and where they are going, women who are striving to live and serve as women of God.

If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.

What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.

One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.

The bells which toll for mankind are - most of them, anyway - like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.

Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.

No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.

My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being.

I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad.

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other; as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.