Best 211 quotes in «cheerful quotes» category

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

Whoever is content,shall be cheerful.

You don’t need to travel far to make people happy. When you make people nearer to you happy, people farther away from you will surely come. Keep doing it!

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

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

A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

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

All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

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

And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.

And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?

As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.

As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they are genial, jolly, cheerful, and always willing to share a kind word with a stranger, unless they are an American.

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

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.

Bad day?" "Every day is a bad day here." "Eh, this place isnt't so terrible." "How are you always cheerful?" "Alcohol," he says with a sideways grin.

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.

Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.

Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.

Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

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

Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.

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

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

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

Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like.

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.

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.‎

God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.

Everyone, including you, just naturally feels better when exposed to a cheerful, optimistic individual, regardless of the nature or length of the contact.

From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am moving at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward.

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we...should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our faith in God and Truth.

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.