An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
--Thomas Fuller – English Clergyman 1608-1661

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
--Charles Kingsley – English Clergyman 1819-1875

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
--Edwin Percy Whipple – American Writer 1819-1886

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
--Joseph Addison – English Writer 1672-1719

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
--Charlotte Bronte – British Novelist 1816-1855

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
--William Feather – American Author – 1889-1991

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
--Aristotle – Greek Philosopher 384 BC – 322 BC

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
--Michel de Montaigne – French Philosopher 1533-1592

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
--Thomas S. Monson – American Clergyman Born 1927

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
--H. G. Wells – English Author 1866-1946

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.
--Thomas Carlyle – Scottish Philosopher 1795-1881

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
--King Solomon - Royalty

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
--Martha Washington – American First Lady 1731-1802

If I was going to be broke I decided I might as well be with actors as anyone else. They were cheerful idiots and seemed to take it better.
--Peter Finch – English Actor 1916-1977

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
--James Freeman Clarke – American Clergyman 1810-1888⁶