Cheerful Quotes

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!'

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

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

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.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

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.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.