Cheerfulness Quotes - Page 6

• Power dwells with cheerfulness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Positive Attitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2367, Delphi Classics

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• Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.

  Earl Nightingale

  Happiness, Moving, Want

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• O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness

  William Ellery Channing

  Blessing, Looks, May

  William Ellery Channing (1850). “Memoir: With Extracts from His Correspondence and Manuscripts”, p.144

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• The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Ambition, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.431

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• The Art of Success . . . Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm. . . . Success is having the courage to meet failure without being defeated. It is refusing to let present loss interfere with your long-range goal. . . . Success is relative and individual and personal. It is your answer to the problem of making your minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years add up to a great life.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Honesty, Attitude

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Weather, Healthy

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• To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Happiness, Men

  "Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin".

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• Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

  Adam Smith

  Happiness, Habitual

  Adam Smith (2012). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• All succeeds with people who are sweet and cheerful.

  Voltaire

  Sweet, People, Cheerful

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• Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Grief, Eye

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.115, Vintage

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• Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of the improbable action of some preposterous creature who has nothing to gain and indeed gains nothing from causing us embarrassment, difficulties or harm. Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does. In fact there is no explanation - or better there is only one explanation: the person in question is stupid.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Stupid, Energy, Doe

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• In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the question. He pays me and He pays me well. He pays me and He will not fail to pay me. He pays me not merely for the rule of thumb task, which is all that men recognize, but to everything else I bring to my job in the way of industry, good intentions and cheerfulness. If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, as St. Paul says, we may depend upon it that He loveth a cheerful worker; and where we can cleave the way to His love there we find His endless generosity.

  Basil King

  Love, Jobs, Fear

  Basil King (2012). “The Conquest of Fear”, p.172, tredition

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• There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.

  Ralph Blum

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Thanksgiving, Self, Desire

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.115, SCM Press

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• Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration.....The body must perspire, or must be out of order.

  Noah Webster

  Order, People, Dancing

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• Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

  Thomas More

  Anxiety, Mind, Wealth

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• One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his aim. He loves virtue, not for its obligation, but for its grace; he delights in the world, in man, in woman, for the lovely light that sparkles from them. Beauty, the spirit of joy and hilarity, he sheds over the universe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Men, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.123, Harvard University Press

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• Words can mean different things to different people. It is important to understand what people mean when they use a certain word. Let's make an example. Take the word gay. Fifty years ago, gay meant exclusively cheerfulness, lighthearted excitement, merry or bright colors. Today this word has a different meaning. You won't call a cheerful person gay because it could be understood as something else.

  Ali Sina

  Mean, Gay, Color

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.

  Elizabeth Inchbald

  Motivation, Jaundice, Good Humor

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• A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.

  Joseph Addison

  God, Discovery, Perfection

  Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.359

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• The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Splendor, Hours

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.358

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

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Cheerful, Possibility, Faculty

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1992). “The Brownings' Correspondence: January 1845-July 1845, letters 1799-1981”

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• The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality. There is a vague impression that the world would be a good world if it were only happy, that it would be happy if it were amused, and that it would be amused if plenty of artificial recreation - that recreation for which we are now told every community stands responsible - were provided for its entertainment.

  Agnes Repplier

  Happiness, People, Community

  Agnes Repplier (1916). “Counter-currents”

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• Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.

  William Penn

  Children, Sweet Love, Sobriety

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• Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Cheer, Heart, Rushing

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