Cheerful Quotes

Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.

To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us. These learning experiences must not be misread as divine indifference. Instead, such tutorials are a part of the divine unfolding.

If home is to have a greater lure than a tavern the wife must be at least as cheerful as the waitress.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.

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.

Even if we lose the wealth of thousands, and our life is sacrificed, we...should keep smiling and be cheerful keeping our faith in God and Truth.

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.

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

The cheerful loser is the winner.

It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.

I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally.

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

There is certainly a red for everyone.

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.

Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.

Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

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

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

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

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart.

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

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.

If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

The person who gives with a smile is the best giver because God loves a cheerful giver.

I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.

Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.

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.

Being cheerful keeps you healthy

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.

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.

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

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.

Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.

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.

Of this you may be certain: The Lord especially loves righteous women-women who are not only faithful but filled with faith, women who are optimistic and cheerful because they know who they are and where they are going, women who are striving to live and serve as women of God.

Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.

One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.

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.‎