Cheerfulness Quotes

• What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Inspiration, Health

  "Pray It Forward:daily Meditations". Book by Rowena Holloway and Joyce Bullion, p. 25, 2007.

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• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

  Aristotle

  Beauty, Beautiful, Gratitude

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Mind, Glorious

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• Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Charity, Helping, Virtue

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• If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Joy, World, Virtue

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• The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Faith, Gratitude

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

  Philip Massinger

  Cheerful, Looks, Crowns

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

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Contentment, Cheerful

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• The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Cheerful, Certain

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.235

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• Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.

  John Dryden

  Waiting, Fortune

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.249

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• Nature designed us to be of good cheer.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Cheer, Good Cheer

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• A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

  Mark Twain

  Healthy, Occupation, Impossible

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Horace

  Mind, Cheerful, Bitter

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• Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

  Charles Kingsley

  Thanksgiving, Self, Excellence

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Town and Country Sermons: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.162, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Hope, Gratitude

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.637, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Life, Courage, Disappointment

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Endurance, Calculations

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• The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Lying, Perfect, Anxiety

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Feb 04, 2017

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• O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Dark, Dwelling

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• Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Strength, Happiness, Power

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• Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Get Well, Health, Noble

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.155, Harvard University Press

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• I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Cheer, Mean, Thinking

  "Thatcher Put the "Great" Back in Great Britain" by Jack Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 14, 2013.

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• The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Years, Cheerful

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