Uplifting Behavior Quotes

The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.

Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.

How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.

Give yourself permission to smile a lot today. In fact, why not make it a habit!

I have never said a negative thing about anybody, even when the whole world was saying I was gay because Renée Zellweger cited fraud.

But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society.

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

Smile and others will smile back.

We're supposed to be role models.

Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a bird singing or see the sunlight streaming through the window.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

When we evaluate the rightness or wrongness of actions or behavior, we need to ask ourselves if that behavior will edify—build up—ourselves or someone else, or if it will tear down. The question is not what we can get away with, but what is healthy and edifying. When it is all said and done, are we edified spiritually? Have we been built up and strengthened in our relationship with the Lord or with our spouse, or have we been weakened? Do we come away encouraged or discouraged, confident or filled with a sense of guilt or shame? Is our conscience clean?