Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

Kurt Vonnegut

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.

Beverly Sills

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ...

Dean Koontz

In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

Albert Einstein

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Plautus

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

George Gissing

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

Tullian Tchividjian

The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.

Joseph Addison

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

Thomas Haliburton

Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, melancholy, is disease

Edwin Whipple

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline

Charles Dickens

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are fatuous preservers of youthful looks

Charles Dickens

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

Charles Spurgeon

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Miguel de Cervantes

Health and cheerfulness make beauty

Charles Dickens

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

Charles Spurgeon

I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it.

Kurt Vonnegut

I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously.

Bill Johnson

I can't afford to have thoughts in my head about me that God doesn't have in His.

Bernie Mac

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

Ed Koch

I can explain it to you, but I can't comprehend it for you.

Bette Midler

Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

Charlotte Rampling

I can occupy myself quite easily with what's going on inside me.

Charlie Watts

I never weigh myself. But if I put my trousers on and they don't do up, then I don't eat until I can.

Cat Deeley

I can't dance at all by myself.