Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

Madam Ambassador, it's been a joy to work with you while you were at the United Nations.

Me and Joyous always work really well together. We can just read each other.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Dennis Prager

The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better

Denholm Elliott

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

Dean Ornish

Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

Elbert Hubbard

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

Elbert Hubbard

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The only joy in this hard life is serving others.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Comparison is the thief of all joy.

Edward Abbey

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

Taya Kyle

For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.

Ben Jonson

True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

Curt Schilling

The only joy out of this comes out of winning, ... especially now.

David Nicholls

And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others

Aaron Hill

Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.

Aaron Hill

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.

William Blake

I have mental joys and mental health,Mental friends and mental wealth,I've a wife that I love and that loves me;I've all but riches bodily.

She was such a joy. When you talked to her, she just glowed.

She was really, really focused. She did a lot of scoring and dishing off. When she sat out a quarter, we really didn't miss a beat. Joy Rutland was phenomenal.

Rodney Carney

If we can win this, we'll be remembered forever. We can give people joy they'll have for the rest of their lives.

Werner Herzog

Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.

Greta Garbo

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

Emily Dickinson

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Victor LaValle

Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

Gail Kelly

One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.

Alan Cohen

You cannot instill joy. You can only find where it lives and bring it forth.

Alan Cohen

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.