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

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

The contemplation of beauty in nature in art in literature in human character diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy by which the hearts anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized spirit and will thrust into heart brain and backbone so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

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.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

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.

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

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.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

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.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

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

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.

People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed.

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.