Quotes about Cheerfulness and Good Humor

Most popular cheer quotes

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up. - Mark Twain quote.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.

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Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. - J. M. Barrie quote.
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

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Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society. - William Thackeray quote.
Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Thackeray Sketches and Travels in London: Mr. Brown’s Letters to his Nephew

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I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth.  The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of mind.  Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. - Joseph Addison quote.
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth.  The latter I consider as an act, the former as an habit of mind.  Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.
I like the man who faces what he must,
With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer;
Who fights the daily battle without fear.
Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape.  I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main. - Lydia Maria Child quote.
Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape.  I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.
Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds. - Dorothea Dix quote.
Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.
Dorothea Dix Stranger and Traveler: The Story of Dorothea Dix, American Reformer
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principal ingredient in the composition of health.

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But every road is tough to me
That has no friend to cheer it.