That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?
Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.
I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.
Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great sacrifices are seldom called for, but the minor ones are in daily requisition; and the making them with cheerfulness and grace enhances their value.
That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.
Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.
Power dwells with cheerfulness.
In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the question. He pays me and He pays me well. He pays me and He will not fail to pay me. He pays me not merely for the rule of thumb task, which is all that men recognize, but to everything else I bring to my job in the way of industry, good intentions and cheerfulness. If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, as St. Paul says, we may depend upon it that He loveth a cheerful worker; and where we can cleave the way to His love there we find His endless generosity.
Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
