Cheerful Quotes - Page 5

I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, - being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.

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.

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

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.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

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.

For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?

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

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.

Be mine that silent calm repast, A conscience cheerful to the last: That tree which bears immortal fruit, Without a canker at the root; That friend which never fails the just, When other friends desert their trust.

A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.

If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!'

I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.