Top 1200 Great Joy Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own. In prayer, how earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in sympathy, how tender! The man who never tried the companionship of a little child has carelessly passed by one of the great pleasures of life, as one passes a rare flower without plucking it or knowing its value

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

Nothing great was ever achieved without great work and great effort. It's really that simple.

[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis - only to find that, in order to do so, we must forswear love and excellence, health and joy. (pg. 44, "The Unsettling of America")

I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors.

America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

Being successful doesn’t necessarily make you great. What makes you great is when you reach back and help somebody else become great.

My grandparents were from Kentucky - I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.

I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.

It's great to see wrestling expand and get the attention it deserves. It's such a great, great sport.

I know that my voice has entered into the hearts of many people and has caused beautiful reactions. Some, hearing me sing, have become more religious; some who were ill felt joy; friends, while in hospital, played my tapes whenever they felt ill; they all said that my voice gave them the strength needed to stand the pain. Therefore, how can I not be thankful for this great gift?

As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

When Roman Polanski did give you a "Great, great, great!" you were just like, "Thank you, Lord, for this magical moment."

We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.

No matter what your background or where you are from, the one thing we can all respect is when great athletes and great passion leads to great achievements.

The life of a family is filled with beautiful moments: rest, meals together, walks in the park or the countryside, visits to grandparents or to a sick person... But if love is missing, joy is missing, nothing is fun. Jesus gives always gives us that love: he is its endless source. In the sacrament he gives us his word and he gives us the bread of life, so that our joy may be complete.

Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly.

There are certain relationships I think I'm great at: I'm the world's greatest daughter. I'm a great relative. I believe I'm a great friend.

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

In the last analysis, home happiness depends on the wife. Her spirit gives the home its atmosphere. Her hands fashion its beauty. Her heart makes its love. And the end is so worthy, so noble, so divine, that no woman who has been called to be a wife, and has listened to the call, should consider any price too great to pay, to be the light, the joy, the blessing, the inspiration of a home.

Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and 'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT ENDING.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.

I still hold myself and my marriage up very high. I look upon it with great pride, great honor and great memories. I have no regrets.

I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.

Manchester United are a great club, and being associated with them is a great compliment for me, but Atletico are also great.

I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.

I've been given the tools necessary to be a great musician, a great entertainer, and great person that's gonna inspire everyone.

I have a great band from Jersey and New York. I say that because they got great attitude, and we have a great time on stage.

Wembley is a ground with great history. It's hosted games and players of great prestige. It's always important playing on great stages like this.

The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates

It was tough leaving Boston with a great city, a great organization and a great bunch of guys.

As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'

I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the love for my parents and the love for my friends is the end in itself. The meaning is life.

I've been so fortunate in life to have worked for such great organizations, with great owners and general managers and all the great players, along with the support of my family.

To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She could do so because her joy was rooted in the certitude of the ultimate goodness of God's loving plan for her. And though her faith in this truth did not touch her soul with consolation, she ventured to meet the challenges of life with a smile. Her one lever was her blind trust in God.

I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while I cannot give you, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take Heaven. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant. Take Peace. The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet, within our reach, is joy. Take Joy.

Guilt is imposed by others on you. It is a strategy of the priests to exploit. It is a conspiracy between the priest and the politician to keep humanity in deep slavery forever. They create guilt in you, they create great fear of sin. They condemn you, they make you afraid, they poison your very roots with the idea of guilt. They destroy all possibilities of laughter, joy, celebration. Their condemnation is such that to laugh seems to be a sin, to be joyous means you are worldly.

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

it pleaseth me when I see through the meadows The tents and pavilions set up, and great joy have I When I see o'er the campana knights armed and horses arrayed. And it pleaseth me when the scouts set in flight the folk with their goods; And it pleaseth me when I see coming together after them an host of armed men.

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

Flip Saunders is a great coach and a great guy. Glen Taylor is the same way. He's a great human being.

I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.

Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.

Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.