Joy
Definition: A feeling of great pleasure and happiness. Rejoice.
Number of Quotes: 13
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in
each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard David Bach
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
Francis Bacon
Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
William Blake
We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?
Richard Branson
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
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
The best laid schemes of mice and men
oft go awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!
Robert Burns
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our
children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Jimmy Carter
The only way to enjoy life is to work. Work is much more fun than fun.
Noël Coward
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness;
Endymion
John Keats
Happiness ... lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and
moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being
thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish
selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
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