Cheer Quotes - Page 17

• If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Self, Guests, Merry

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.22, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The bluebird enjoys the preeminence of being the first bit of color that cheers our northern landscape. The other birds that arrive about the same time--the sparrow, the robin, the phoebe-bird--are clad in neutral tints, gray, brown, or russet; but the bluebird brings one of the primary hues and the divinest of them all.

  John Burroughs

  Color, Bird, Robins

  John Burroughs (1976). “The birds of John Burroughs: keeping a sharp lookout”

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• England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

  Walter Scott

  Christmas, Sports, Xmas

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.112

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• Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in

  William Cowper

  Fall, Fire, Waiting

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.

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• My caddy today was a Scot and he told me that he was cheering for Australia, which I thought was a bit harsh. But generally I've been amazed at how many people have come up to me here in Scotland and said: 'I've never really watched cricket before, but I was hooked all summer.' It's great.

  Andrew Strauss

  Summer, Scotland, Australia

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• A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be able to move ahead.

  Robert Bateman

  Attitude, Moving, Giving

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• People now are beginning to cheer for me. I've never heard that before. .. Maybe things are turning a bit.

  Alex Rodriguez

  People, Heard, Bits

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• If you go to Madison Square Garden, you better have your A game ready, because here goes the thing, they love boxing. They either like you, or they don't like you. They're either cheering for you, or they're cheering for you to die...They want you to kill, or be killed.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivation, Garden, Squares

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• Every time I look down on this timeless town, whether blue or gray be her skies, whether loud be her cheers, or whether soft be her tears, more and more do I realize that...I love Paris.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Blue, Sky, Paris

  Song: I Love Paris

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• No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Men, Soldier, Battle

  William Edward White, Daniel O'Connell (1954). “Daniel O'Connell's Oratory on Repeal”

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• While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Leadership, Party, Passion

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• Wan February with weeping cheer,
  Whose cold hand guides the youngling year
  Down misty roads of mire and rime,
  Before thy pale and fitful face
  The shrill wind shifts the clouds apace
  Through skies the morning scarce may climb.
  Thine eyes are thick with heavy tears,
  But lit with hopes that light the year's.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Morning, Eye, Hands

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1411, Delphi Classics

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• In racing marathons, one does not see the dropouts make fun of those who continue; failed runners actually cheer on those who continue the race, wishing they were still in it. Not so with the marathon of discipleship in which some dropouts then make fun of the spiritual enterprise of which they were so recently a part!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Fun, Failure

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• Being of good cheer makes it possible for us to turn all of our sunsets into sunrises.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Sunset, Sunrise, Turns

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• In harvest time, harvest folk, servants and all
  Should make, all together, good cheer in the hall
  Once ended the harvest, let none be beguiled
  Please such as did help thee, man, woman and child.

  Thomas Tusser

  Children, Men, Harvest Time

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• I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.

  William Dean Howells

  Happiness, Appreciation, Real

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• A scrip on my back, and a staff in my hand,
  I march on in haste through an enemy's land;
  The road may be rough, but it cannot be long;
  And I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song.

  Henry Francis Lyte

  Song, Hands, Land

  Henry Francis Lyte (1833). “Poems: Chiefly Religious”, p.100

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• Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives. A determination to be of good cheer can help us and those around us to enjoy life more fully.

  Barbara W. Winder

  Happiness, Determination, Enjoy Life

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• During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini that they rose as one man and applauded him. When the spontaneous cheering has subsided, Toscanini turned to his men, tears glistening in his eyes. "Please . . . please! Don't do this! You see, gentlemen, it isn't me you should applaud. It's Beethoven!"

  James Keller

  Eye, Men, Symphony

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• Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear.

  William Blake

  Song, Laughter, Children

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) introduction

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• We have a duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.

  William Barclay

  Appreciation, Blessed, Men

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• I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Kindness, Believe, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (1933). “Elbert Hubbard Speaks: Being a Selection of Inspirational Essays, Each Written in the White Heat of Inspired Heart Impulses”

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• We must act on the direction we receive. We must look up and step up. And as we do, I know we will cheer up, for God wants us to be happy.

  Carl B. Cook

  Looks, Want, Steps

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• You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
  Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
  Sneak home and pray you'll never know
  The hell where youth and laughter go.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Laughter, Home, Eye

  Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.

  E.F. Benson

  Depressing, World, Ifs

  E. F. Benson (2014). “Delphi Works of E. F. Benson with the Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels (Illustrated)”, p.3230, Delphi Classics

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