Joy Quotes

I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.

~ Kevin Costner

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

~ Wayne Dyer

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

~ Don Bluth

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

~ Ninon De L'enclos

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

~ Thomas S. Monson

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

~ Pope Francis

Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season.

~ Thomas S. Monson

The joy of Christmas causes hundreds of radio stations around the country to play Christmas music all day, and people will exchange millions of gifts to remember the first gift of Christmas, the infant Jesus.

~ James Lankford

I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time.

~ Jeremy Corbyn

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.

~ Molière

I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that's not the case with all people and I don't think kids should go without experiencing that sort of joy.

~ Lucy Hale

As a youngster, when I was active in church, I had a lot of fun choosing and hanging massive stars and making the cribs. I was also very involved in the Christmas plays, though not as an actor, but I took joy in setting up the props.

~ Nivin Pauly

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

~ Henry Ford

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

~ Christian Lous Lange

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

~ Pearl S. Buck

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

~ Khalil Gibran

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

~ Dylan Thomas

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

~ Pearl S. Buck

I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

~ Yves Saint-Laurent

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

~ Albert Einstein

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

~ Eleonora Duse

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

~ Bernard Meltzer

Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me.

~ Tim Hunt

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

~ Albert Einstein

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

~ Anne Sullivan

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

~ Carlos Santana

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

~ Nikolai Gogol

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

~ James Russell Lowell

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

~ Ossie Davis

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

~ Helen Keller

The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.

~ John Piper

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

~ Matthew Simpson

If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.

~ Will.i.am

Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.

~ John Lahr

Joy is prayer joy is strength: joy is love joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

~ Mother Teresa

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

~ Helen Keller

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry