I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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.
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
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.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Health and cheerfulness make beauty
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.
Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
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?
We have a mission to others--to add to their cheer. This we cannot do unless we have first learned the lesson of cheerfulness ourselves.
