4,580 Quotes About Joy

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

The world is for newness, not for oldness. New, new things we have to create. Then only the world will progress. If not, we will come to feel that there is nothing new under the sun. We have to create new things to keep our joy. If there is no newness, how can we have enthusiasm? And if there is no enthusiasm, do we make any progress?

Oh, this is the joy of the rose;That it blows,And goes.

A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.

...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.