Cheer Up Quotes - Page 3

• You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  "Pooh's Little Instruction Book". Book by A. A. Milne, Joan Powers, www.mtv.com. 2001.

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• If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

  Joyce Meyer

  Depression, Hurt, Cheer

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

  John Heywood

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.328

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• Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.

  David Byrne

  Cheer, Real, Sadness

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• Every problem comes along with it's solution; the bigger the problem, the bigger the testimony. Cheer up!

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Cheer, Problem, Bigger

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• Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

  Joseph Conrad

  Courage, Army, Hard Times

  Joseph Conrad (2002). “Typhoon and Other Tales”, p.64, Oxford University Press, USA

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• No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cheer, Matter, Today

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• I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.

  Gene Tierney

  Cheer, Fine

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up." It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thank You, Cheer, Real

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• Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

  Virginia Woolf

  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to stand on.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Moving, Perfect, Legs

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• All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!

  James M. Barrie

  Dust, Needs, Littles

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• I am a cheerful man, even in the dark, and it's all thanks to a good Lutheran mother. . . . Mother was well composed, a true Lutheran, and taught me to Cheer up, Make yourself useful, Mind your manners, and above all, Don't feel sorry for yourself.

  Garrison Keillor

  Mother, Cheer, Sorry

  Garrison Keillor (1998). “Wobegon Boy”, p.9, Penguin

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• Daisy smiled and said, "Jay Berry, you won't die. You may think you will, but you won't. In a day or two, you'll be as good as new, I hope." "You're just saying that because you heard Papa say it," I said. "No, I'm not!" Daisy said. "I'm saying it because I'm a nurse, and nurses are supposed to cheer up their patients." I knew all too well that once Daisy had gotten into one of her Red Cross nursing spells, it was ridiculous to even think of trying to argue her out of it. So I just groaned, closed my eyes, and sat there while

  Wilson Rawls

  Cheer, Eye, Nursing

  Wilson Rawls (2010). “Summer of the Monkeys”, p.143, Yearling

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• What's wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up for Christ's sake, I told myself, relax, you're fine, be happy, Girl. When I talk to myself I call myself Girl.

  Jennifer Belle

  Girl, Cheer, Optimistic

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• Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Light, Darkness, Cursing

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• Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Positive, Leadership

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• So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.

  Dr. Seuss

  Positive, Inspiring, Encouragement

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Views, San Francisco, Girl Interrupted

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.6, Vintage

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• When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.

  Robert Asprin

  Cheer, Enough

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• Overly positive, horrendously cheerful people can make a depressed person even more depressed. In fact, perhaps the least helpful thing one can say to a depressed person is, "Cheer up!"

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Depression, Cheer, Depressed Person

  Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams (1996). “How to Heal Depression”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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• Don't let the bastards grind you down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Graduation, Latin, Grind

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

  Cornelia Funke

  Inspirational, Book, Insperational

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• If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

  Tony Robbins

  Ifs

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