Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Cheerfulness

A light heart lives long.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Cheerful looks make every dish a feast; and it is that which crowns a welcome.
Philip Massinger (1583–1640) English Playwright

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

If the soul be happily disposed, everything becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
Oliver Goldsmith (1730–74) Irish Novelist, Playwright, Poet

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The former is an act, the latter a habit of the mind. Mirth is short and transient; cheerfulness, fixed and permanent. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment. Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English Essayist, Poet, Playwright, Politician

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Lydia Maria Child (1802–80) American Abolitionist, Writer

Health and cheerfulness make beauty; finery and cosmetics cost money and lie.
Spanish Proverb

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Cheerfulness is contagious, but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a “carrier”.
Unknown

Cheerful company shortens the journey.
German Proverb

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist

Not having enough sunshine is what ails the world.—Make people happy, and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.
Lydia Maria Child (1802–80) American Abolitionist, Writer

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American Poet, Journalist

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Goodness smiles to the last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.
Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist

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 (1925–2013) British Head of State

Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.
Chinese Proverb

It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) Italian Monk, Founder of the Franciscan Order

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) English Novelist

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being cheerful and pleasant.
Charles Buxton (1823–71) British Politician, Writer

Cheerfulness is a friend to grace; it puts the heart in tune to praise God, and so honors religion by proclaiming to the world that we serve a good master.—Be serious, yet cheerful.—Rejoice in the Lord always.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874–1956) American Business Executive

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
Samuel Butler

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 (1564–1616) British Playwright

If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish Novelist, Lecturer, Poet

God is glorified, not by our groans but by our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.
Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–86) American Literary Critic

To be happy, the temperament must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy.—A propensity to hope and joy, is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, is real poverty.
David Hume (1711–76) Scottish Philosopher, Historian

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist

To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic

A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty and affliction, convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable.
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English Essayist, Poet, Playwright, Politician

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