#cheerful

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. ↗

My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life. ↗

— David Wooster

#before #cause #cheerfully #devoted #down

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#far #hopeful #more #old #sometimes

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty . ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#battles #built #cheerful #cut #faith

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#cheerfully #cross #will #you

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

#best #breed #cheerfulness #content #diligence

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#cheerfully #fingers #give #grace #hesitation

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#cheerful #down #get #happy #her

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance. ↗

— King Solomon

#countenance #heart #maketh #merry

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. ↗