Cheerful Quotes

Cheerfulness is contagious, but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn’t be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and immortality. Cheerful people live longest here […]

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matters, which is causing anxiety. Our doings are not so important as we naturally suppose; our successes and failures do not after all matter very much.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. (Proverbs 17:22)

A man, who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.

There is no greater every-day virtue than cheerfulness. This quality in man among men is like sunshine to the day, or gentle renewing moisture to parched herbs. The light of a cheerful face diffuses itself, and communicates the happy spirit that inspires it. The sourest temper must sweeten in the atmosphere of continuous good humor.