“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.”
“Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!”
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
“Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.”
“The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.”
“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
“Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.”
“A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.”
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
“An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.”
“People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.”
“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”
“So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.”
“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.”
“It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.”
“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.”
“Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.”
“The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.”
“I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.”
“The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.”
“Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.”
“To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.”
“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.”
“O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.”
“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.”
“In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.”
“To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.”
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”
“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.”
“Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives. A determination to be of good cheer can help us and those around us to enjoy life more fully.”