Cheerful Quotes - Page 11

• Be mine that silent calm repast,
  A conscience cheerful to the last:
  That tree which bears immortal fruit,
  Without a canker at the root;
  That friend which never fails the just,
  When other friends desert their trust.

  Nathaniel Cotton

  Roots, Tree, Fruit

  John Gilbert Cooper, Nathaniel Cotton (1822). “The Poems of Cooper, and Cotton”, p.274

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• Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Summer, Wise, Nature

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• It is winter time, my friend; buy couple of breads; find a place calm and quiet and feed the birds; and for this action of yours, ask no more reward than their cheerful singings!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Couple, Winter, Bird

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• The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Wall, Ignorance, Writing

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.317, Faber & Faber

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• I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

  Beverly Sills

  Thinking, People, Complaining

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• Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.

  Mary Pipher

  Courage, Morning, Alzheimer's

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• There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Journey, Speech

  Alice Meynell (2015). “The Children”, p.6, Alice Meynell

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

  Novalis

  Soul, Wit, Shows

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• On the whole, and providing one is in good spirits and feeling reasonably bright, it is not hard to converse for a short space of time on subjects about which one knows little, and it is indeed often amusing to see how cunningly one can steer the conversational barque, hoisting and lowering her sails, tacking this way and that to avoid reefs, and finally racing feverishly for home with the outboard engine making a loud and cheerful noise.

  Virginia Graham

  Home, Space, Feelings

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• The greatness that would make us grave,
  Is but an empty thing.
  What more than mirth would mortals have?
  The cheerful man's a king.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Kings, Greatness, Men

  Isaac BICKERSTAFFE (1814). “Love in a Village ... As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Printed ... from the prompt book. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald”, p.14

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• Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Sadness, Thinking, People

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• I am an incorrigible devotee to solitude, and am never so cheerful, I believe, or so unruffled by small difficulties as when I'm alone. There's a sort of obligation to be polite and pleasant to yourself when nobody else is round.

  Susan Hale

  Believe, Solitude, Difficulty

  Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”

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• Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Spring, Love Is, Joy

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world.

  Hugh Black

  Happiness, Cheer, Heart

  Hugh Black (1911). “Happiness”

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• The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Happiness, Beautiful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.427

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• The happiest people I know are not those who are the most beautiful, rich or famous. The happiest people I see are simply those who stay cheerful and try to cheer up others while getting through their own bad stuff

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Beautiful, Cheer, People

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• My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

  George Meredith

  Life Is

  George Meredith, William Maxse Meredith (1913). “Letters of George Meredith: 1882-1909”

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• 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.

  Ida Tarbell

  Country, Suffering, Endurance

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916). “New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits”

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• You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Matter, Realizing

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• Subordinates look for their bosses to be positive, in good humor, and cheerful. They aren't supposed to be emotional or have bad days. but leaders are guman, too, and when they are in a lousy mood and snap at a subordinate, it can have a devastating effect.

  Donald T. Phillips

  Motivational, Bad Day, Emotional

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• You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really, that's what scientists believe. In fact many scientists actually use their fireplaces to cool their houses in the summer. If you visit a scientist's house on a sultry August day, you'll find a cheerful fire roaring on the hearth and the scientist sitting nearby, remarking on how cool he is and drinking heavily.

  Dave Barry

  Summer, Humorous, Drinking

  Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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• Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.

  William Wordsworth

  Spring, Farewell, Bird

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• Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like.

  Sylvia Plath

  Want, Stuff, World

  Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Schober Plath (1975). “Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963”, HarperCollins Publishers

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

  Dean Koontz

  Despair, Leviathan, Persevere

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.234, Bantam

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• A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy within him.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Men, Joy, Fountain

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.15

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