Quotes with cheerfulness

  • Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
  • 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.
  • Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

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  • Charles Kingsley Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Joseph Addison Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Joseph Addison Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Albert J. Nock As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Charles Dickens Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Edwin P. Whipple Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
    Edwin P. Whipple
    American essay writer (1819 - 1886)
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  • Joseph Addison Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Arthur Murphy Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
    Arthur Murphy
    Irish writer
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  • Charles Dickens I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Benjamin Rush Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • Kate Millet Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • William James The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • William James Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Carlyle 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.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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