Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Klein

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

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.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Sylvia Plath

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.

Kenneth Branagh

I'm basically quite a cheerful person.

Sathya Baba

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

Philip Massinger

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

Peter Medawar

The bells which toll for mankind are—most of them, anyway—like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.

Phillips Brooks

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.‎

William Howard Taft

The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.

George Will

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.

Horace

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

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.

Garth Nix

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.

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.

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.

Charles Dickens

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

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.

Joseph Addison

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

Emile Durkheim

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

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every beginning is cheerful.

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.

John Gay

What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.

John Flanagan

Well, we can ride together for a while longer. The highway south is farther along this way. I'll be glad of some cheerful company." "First time anyone's said that about me," Halt replied.