Joy Quotes (289 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Audrey Hepburn
„If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.“
― Audrey Hepburn ―
Picture of quotation author Armin Zoggeler
„My good health, coupled with joy of tobogganing and my desire to be the best, has helped me stay in professional sport for so long.“
― Armin Zoggeler ―
Picture of quotation author August Strindberg
„People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.“
Picture of quotation author Angie Stone
„I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount.“
― Angie Stone ―
Picture of quotation author Pope Francis
„Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.“
― Pope Francis ―
Picture of quotation author Ishmael Beah
„We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.“
― Ishmael Beah ―
Picture of quotation author Clara Schumann
„There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.“
― Clara Schumann ―
Picture of quotation author Aeschylus
„There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.“
― Aeschylus ―
Picture of quotation author Mel Brooks
„Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.“
― Mel Brooks ―
Picture of quotation author Michelle Shocked
„I've been through some dark times but I've experienced joy too. Now that joy can't be suppressed.“
Picture of quotation author Sharon Creech
„Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is.“
― Sharon Creech ―
Picture of quotation author Adelaide Anne Procter
„Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.“
Picture of quotation author Howard Cosell
„Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.“
― Howard Cosell ―
Picture of quotation author Amanda Lindhout
„After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor.“
― Amanda Lindhout ―
Picture of quotation author C. J. Box
„As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.“
― C. J. Box ―
Picture of quotation author Tony Campolo
„I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.“
― Tony Campolo ―
Picture of quotation author Miranda Hart
„I do love to cry. I'll cry at the drop of a hat. I'll cry at your basic television programme, let alone a weepie. But not big, heavy, serious crying. I haven't done that for a while, which is a relief. More like a little welling up of joy.“
― Miranda Hart ―
Picture of quotation author Gary Hamel
„Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.“
― Gary Hamel ―
Picture of quotation author Pierre Corneille
„We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.“
Picture of quotation author Mike Nichols
„As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making them, seeing them - is not something that could ever lose its pleasure for me. That puts them on a short list of things that eternally give me joy - love, family, food, movies.“
― Mike Nichols ―

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