Beverly Sills Quotes

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

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

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

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 pretty light and light-spirited person; I'm not a depressed guy.

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

When I find myself having to share a meal with someone who simply wants to complain about the world, I almost feel myself wanting to crawl out of my skin and just sort of scurry away. But being able to pick up on that stuff and being able to easily identify the people walking towards the light instead of walking towards the darkness, that's a skill I'm very, very glad to see growing in myself.

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

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.

It's a divine art to be cheerful.

I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better.

Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.

People who feel positively think differently. They think better.

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily.

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 a happy-go-lucky guy.

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

I think it's nice when everyone's happy. I'm that kind of person. But then sometimes you have people that are never happy, which also happened to me a little bit, people that always find ways to complain about everything. But if they're never happy, that's the way they are.

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

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.

I'm generally a very annoyingly positive person, in real life. I think that might have something to do with my gravitation towards angry human beings on screen.

I was always a very happy, optimistic person.