(320 quotes found)
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
Mark Twain
“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.”
William Londen
“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.”
Martha Washington
“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity”
Joseph Addison
“For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.”
Christina G. Rossetti
“So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away”
William Shakespeare
“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
“Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper.”
