Best 211 quotes in «cheerful quotes» category

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

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.

If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress.

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.

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.

I have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one else would see them that way.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

I hide hurt behind a fake smile. I wear it all the time. Everyone says how I always look so cheerful. Shows what they know I guess.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.

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

It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,--a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness.

It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.

It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.

It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.

It was just that she had the need to tell him something honest, something honest and unhappy, because cheerful lies tonight were too depressing and too sharp, turning in on her like pins

I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

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

Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.

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

Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

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

Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.

Most people probably assume that Hristo is a grumpy, stubborn guy... That can't be further from the truth. He's a cheerful, candid person that never holds a grudge.

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.

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.

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

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

Nothing is more cheerful than talking about our friends' shortcomings.

Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.

One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.

O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.

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.

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