Quotes about Joy
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
It has been a journey of ups and downs. There have been moments of immense joy and heartbreaks. Everything I have gone through has made me better.
- Kunal Khemu
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
- Andrew Carnegie
No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?
- Mother Teresa
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
- James Allen
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
- Tertullian
What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
- Oprah Winfrey
The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything.
- Mother Teresa
Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.
- David Ogilvy
Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.
- John Piper