Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fernando Pessoa

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

Ezra Taft Benson

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily.

Sathya Baba

The wise are cheerful and content with their lot in life.

Jaron Lanier

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

Miguel de Cervantes

Health and cheerfulness make beauty

Leigh Hunt

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.

Charles Dickens

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

Tess Gerritsen

In China, the dead are not forgotten - my relatives cheerfully pointed out all the niches of deceased friends and family, as if gesturing at the homes of the living.

James Gleick

I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.

Joseph Addison

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline

Charles Dickens

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are fatuous preservers of youthful looks

Charles Dickens

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

Erica Jong

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

Charles Spurgeon

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

George Washington Cable

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

George Meredith

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

Henry James

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.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

George Gissing

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.

Plautus

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

Albert Einstein

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every beginning is cheerful.

Emile Durkheim

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

Marcus Aurelius

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

Pema Chodron

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.

Kenneth Branagh

I'm basically quite a cheerful person.

Joseph Addison

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

Louisa May Alcott

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.