Anna Quindlen Quotes

I'm a relatively optimistic kind of guy.

I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

I'm a very upbeat, positive, optimistic type of person.

I have a happy temperament: a bit like 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.'

He always smiles, even when contemplating nothing good.

The trouble with traditional American conservatism is that it lacks a naturally cheerful, optimistic disposition. Not only does it lack one, it regards signs of one as evidence of unsoundness, irresponsibility.

I'm actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music.

It's a divine art to be cheerful.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.

I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

For me especially, I always have a very cheery disposition and that's how I've always come off. So I forget that doesn't really allow me to have a bad mood.

One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.

Every beginning is cheerful.

Even bad teams have optimism. You don't want to take away the optimism so early in the season. The Bad News Bears coach wouldn't even tell (his team) that.

Those who move forward "with a" happy spirit will find that things alwas work out.

How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side.

I'm one of the most joyous people I've ever met.

Life isn't all that sad. I'm a happy person.

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

I'm a happy-go-lucky guy.

Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.