Cheerful Quotations

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

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.

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.

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.

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.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

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

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named John Josselyn, a man of everyday tastes and much inquisitiveness, and the pleasing literary style which comes from directness, and an absence of self-consciousness.

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

Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.

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.

You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

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.

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

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

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.

Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am.

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

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

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

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.

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.

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.

We have a relationship of cheerful antagonism. I enjoy twisting his tail and he enjoys wagging his finger at me.

We have a peculiar situation in which the shoppers seem to feel there is plenty to be cheerful about but the bond market is much more cautious.

When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.

Being organized will give you more free time, contribute to a cheerful nature, and add to the peace and security of your home.

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

Love should make us smile, jest and laugh. A stiff relationship is a symptom of a demented affair. God loves a cheerful lover.

Many may ask how can we celebrate Christmas and be cheerful with the wall imprisoning us.

My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took vacation jobs there as a nursing assistant. So I did get to see mental illness, but I don't remember conversations about mental conditions. My father was a cheerful man with a robust attitude to such things.

He was always cheerful and demonstrated remarkable dynamism in his job.

He is a real cheerful guy; he is one of the nicest guys I've ever met. Real polite.

He is cheerful because he is composed. He only wishes to think good thoughts, say good thoughts and do what is right.

I think spring is trying to be cheerful in a low-key way.

People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul.

. . . steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and cheerful as a cricket. . . .

I think he'll do a good job if he accepts that role. He's a cheerful guy. He loves to have fun. He loves to win. ... Some people will say, 'Last year I heard some bad comments about him. He came late,' and all that type of stuff. But that's history. He might be a new guy. Who knows?

You can be cheerful around them, ... and try to help them and make them feel better any kind of way.

I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast....

Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere.

The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been called my "image", which is a word that baffles me. There never was any intent on my part either in my acting or in my private life to create any such thing as an image.

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence ...

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.

Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?

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.

When you have someone selling himself so vigorously, you will provoke a reaction, even personal animosity. If all you see when you walk around is someone's cheerful grin saying everything is really ok, well, you're going to get annoyed.

What we are seeing is a good old-fashioned backlash against a company that started as a cheerful outsider but has now in effect become part of the establishment. People, particularly the British, love to kick a winner.

We are very pleased to have April join our team. Her cheerful smile and caring personality were an instant hit with all our patients.

Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

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

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.

As far as today is concerned, there has been no impact at all from the ban. Everybody is cheerful and supportive.

always cheerful and the essence of grace, dignity and courage -- a fighter to the end.

It's just so sad. He always had such a loving and kind personality, always had a cheerful smile and always had a warm greeting for everyone he met.

Do not be perturbed and deluded by seeing such a terrible form of Mine as this. With fearless and cheerful mind, now behold My four-armed form.

Tami was just really always bright and cheerful and just had an awesome customer service attitude. They made sure folks were satisfied. They listened to requests.

Sweetheart,' 'darling,' 'luv.' I like these words; they fit me like a comfortable old pullover. I remember them from childhood; that's what innocent little boys were called by cheerful aunties back then, to make them feel welcome and secure in the world.

I'm very cheerful about coming back to the U.K. We increasingly found ourselves gravitating towards London. There was so much going on for our business, and we had grown substantially here.

The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter

He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.

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

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

Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful.

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

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

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

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.

I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.

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

There is certainly a red for everyone.

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.

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

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.

The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.

The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.

The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)

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

I can but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the duty of happiness as well as the happiness of duty; for we ought to be as bright and genial as we can, if only because to be cheerful ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

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

You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.