Cheerfulness Quotes and Sayings

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.” – Maya Angelou

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” – Mark Twain

“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.” – Joseph Addison

“People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.” – Samuel Butler

“Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.” – Charles Kingsley

“To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” – William Londen

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.” – Helen Keller

“Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.” – Earl Nightingale

“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, there wouldn’t be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and morality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts.” – Author Unknown

“The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.” – Michel Montaigne

“The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best.” – Dorothy Dix

“Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That’s what education is about.” – Matthieu Ricard