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Quotes about Cheerfulness

Cheerfulness will help you draw strangers, cleverness will help gain acquaintances, faithfulness will help you keep companions, and kindness will help you multiply friends.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.
- LM Montgomery
The most destitute person in the world is the one without a smile.
- Zig Ziglar
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
- Charles Dickens
Really cheerful people are usually the bravest...
- Ernest Hemingway
She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I choose one thing: always to have the laughter on my side.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Don't be gloomy. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. [Life is about] joy,... something to be happy and excited about.
- Gordon Hinckley
Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day.
- Anonymous
If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile.
- Anonymous