75 Cheer Up Quotes
Use these cheer up quotes to comfort someone or share with a person who is having a bad day, whether it is a friend, family member, or colleague. We are not meant to keep happiness and joy to ourselves. Instead, we can encourage others through kind words, thoughtful actions, and uplifting attitudes each day. Sometimes a few caring words can help a person cheer up and realize things are not as bad as they first seemed.
At times, the person who needs cheering up most is ourselves. We all face disappointments, worries, and difficult days. But focusing on the positive rather than the negative can change our attitude and help us move forward with renewed hope and encouragement.
When we feel down, an optimistic quote can help us see a situation in a different light. It is our hope that you will find inspiration and encouragement in these quotes and short poems, and that they will help bring more positive thoughts into your day and into the lives of those around you. Cheer up, enjoy each day, and look for the good around you!
Updated May 8, 2026, by Catherine Pulsifer.
Cheer Up And Be Glad
These quotes remind us that a cheerful spirit can brighten even an ordinary day.
Be wise! Be cheerful, bright and glad. Leave to the fool his folly, and let your motto be:
"Cheer up!" Your rule of life: "Be jolly!"
Unknown, Good In The Day
With all its sham, drudgery & broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann
Good times they are comin' push, push on behind...be cheerful an' kind. Encourage the drummin' with smiles on your face
Unknown, Good Times
And the world hath need of your cheer. Why add to its burden of groans and
Unknown, Bear The Sunshine
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard
Decide that life is good and you are special. Decide to enjoy today.
Donna Fargo
Every voice should be raised in a song of good cheer, all our strength to that cause we should lend.
Quincy Kilby
This world is filled with things that are right things that make you feel cheery and bright
Catherine Pulsifer, A Different Word
New Day And Fresh Start Quotes
Each new morning gives us another chance to begin again with hope.
Every day is a fresh beginning,
every morn is the world made new
Unknown, Every Day
Another dawn may yet restore our faith and hope and joy once more; sad soul, take comfort, nor forget that sunrise never failed us yet.
Celia Thaxter, Cheer Up
It’s a new day! Cheer up! Embrace the sun. Let its warmth fill your heart. Let it be a new start…
Rula Osta, Cheer Up! It's A New Day
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
Meister Eckhart
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard
But close the book - the story is old;
Lay it away with a smile or a tear;
Written in black, or written in gold,
We open the book of another year.
Unknown, The Old Year's Book
Let us enter the New Year cheerfully. Let us resolve to look onto the bright side, to make the best of whatever may befall, to maintain faith that doing the right thing will ultimately bring victory.
B.C. Forbes
Cheer Up During Hard Times
These quotes offer comfort when life feels heavy and hope feels far away.
Sorrows will not last forever, brighter times will come again
Unknown, Sunshine After Rain
This too shall pass.
Saying
Life is not a smooth road.
We all carry a load.
Realize you're not the only one
Who feels like life is done,
We all face tests of perseverance and resilience.
That is called experience.
Cheer up we all go through it!
Robert Rivers
You see life is full of struggles and hurt .....
but don't stay down,
get up and find a change of thought
of the positive kind.
Catherine Pulsifer, Life Is Full Of Struggles
Problems there are bound to be. Life can’t be all delight. When you think of what went wrong, remember what went right.
Patience Strong, Try Again
We all can have our ups and downs, how you handle them that determines your frown.
Julie Hebert, Your Journey Through Life
Do not be tempted to remain in your sunken place. Rise up! Cheer up! And never give up!
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you are still breathing maybe it is not such a bad day after all.
Darren E. Laws
Positive Thinking Cheer Up Quotes
These quotes point us toward better thoughts, a better focus, and a brighter outlook.
Today focus on the qualities you like about yourself, focus on the good friends and family members you have around you.. what you focus on I believe will remain constant in your life.
Micheline Jean Louis
Awesome things come to those who focus on the positive, recognize the blessings, find the humor and never give up!
Tanya Masse
A healthy attitude is contagious; let others catch it.
Charles F. Glassman
A positive attitude is the resilience to challenging tribulations.
Theodore W. Higgingsworth
A positive mental attitude can improve your health, enhance your relationships, increase your chances of success....
Frank Sonnenberg
Now open up the windows of the heart, and let the sunshine penetrate the gloom
Delma Pryce
The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind
Roy T. Bennett
A barrier is a limitation only when you perceive it as one.
Stephen Richards
Friends Who Cheer Us Up
Friendship often brings the words, laughter, and support we need most.
In a friendship, one is often called upon to cheer up the other up.
Byron Pulsifer
When they come to you gentle-like an' take your hand an' say: Cheer up! we're with you still,' it counts, for that's the old friends' way.
Edgar A. Guest, Old Friends
A friend who knows, and dares to say, the brave, sweet words that cheer the way where he walks a mile with me.
Henry VanDyke
Oftentimes a cheerful "hello" is the best dispeller of tearful woe.
Dr. L. R. Akers, Whittlings
The meaning of life is not what is provided to you by others. It is you who make the meaning... It is the joy that comes of association. It is, rather, your perception of feeling in the presence of others.
Zac Dixon
But there comes this thought to cheer us as through life we wend our way. Friends we love the best are near us on the glad Thanksgiving day.
C. C. Hassler, Thanksgiving Day
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Abraham Lincoln
Laughter And Smile Quotes
Sometimes a smile, a laugh, or a bit of humor can lift the heart.
Can I give you a handful of laughter? A smidgen of giggles to boot
A cupful of tease and a comical sneeze Followed by a hilarious hoot
Can I offer an hour of happiness throw in an odd chuckle or two
The time spent is worthwhile if the joy brings a smile
John McLeod
A good laugh can cure any little old sore.
Happiness it can restore!
It can make you feel happy and glad
A much better feeling than being sad.
Catherine Pulsifer
Just whistle a bit, if the day be dark, and the sky be overcast
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Just Whistle A Bit
Can't smile, my friend, because you're blue? Well, here's a little hint for you: Look on the heavens for awhile; the bluer they, the more they smile!
John Kendrick Bangs, A Cure
"Cheer up! Cheer up!" Robin sings; "Cheer up! Cheer up!" all day long
Sarah E. Sprague, Cheer Up
The beautiful Moon is an antidepressant. Love for her light is in every heart because she is so friendly, loving, and forgiving.
Debasish Mridha
Gray hair appearing, it looks aspiring. New wrinkles you say - forget them, go play.
Catherine Pulsifer, My Dear
Never Give Up Quotes
These quotes encourage us to keep moving forward even when life feels difficult.
Five Ups of life:
Buckle up,
Start up,
Keep it up,
Don’t give up,
Cheer up.
Vikrmn, You By You
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George E. Woodberry
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it.
You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash
In each problem lies an opportunity to make better, to resolve, or to commence positive change.
Byron R. Pulsifer
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
Don't keep sitting in the audience of your own life. It is time to become the star of your own show.
Rosemary Peck
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs
Faith And Hope Quotes
Faith and hope can help lift our hearts when we need encouragement the most.
God’s mercy is fresh and new every morning.
Joyce Meyer
Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith
Garth Brooks
I have realized that whatever good comes to me, comes from God, whatever bad comes to me, God has allowed it, and I choose to be thankful for both.
Jeff Goins
If there is only one thing I've learned throughout the challenges and tribulations of day to day living, it is that God has always been with me to guide me forward no matter whether or in spite the circumstances.
Byron R. Pulsifer
In a garden that is well attended to,
The garden helps cheer up the caretaker.
Working in a garden can stop the blues
Because you are working with God the maker!
Sam Fickinsen
Thanksgiving comes with bounteous store - its rays reveal the blessings sent to cheer our dreary ways.
Douglas Malloch
Life Lessons And Perspective Quotes
Sometimes a different perspective can help us feel lighter and more hopeful.
Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama
You think you have it rough,
I can tell you someone who has had it tough -
Talk to your grandparents about when they were a child -
It will make you feel thankful.
Catherine Pulsifer
What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.
Suzanne Collins
Conclusion
We hope the words in these quotes have cheered you up or if you have shared them with others, we hope they cheer up the person you have shared them with. Don't waste your precious days feeling down! As my Mom use to say, "cheer up, it could be worse".
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