Top 100 Joy Giving Quotes
#1. Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. Service is the joy-giving factor in daily life. It is as spontaneous as light, as subtle as electricity, as exhilarating as sunshine. It exists primarily as a spiritual attitude. It lies in the constant recognition of the brotherhood of humanity toward each and all with whom we come in contact.
Lilian Whiting
#3. The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.
John Piper
#4. What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.
Nirmala Srivastava
#5. One thing we must understand, that if we have to change the world, we have to change human beings. People think by giving lectures, having conferences and this and that, peace will come. It will never come. A global transformation has to come for peace, for wisdom and for joy.
Nirmala Srivastava
#6. He is the greatest player in the world right now, without a doubt, he is the player who gives Brazilians the most joy.
(on Ronaldinho)
Pele
#7. The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.
Fran Tarkenton
#8. This generation has a responsibility to reshape the world. Start the task even if it will not be fulfilled in your lifetime. Even if it seems hopeless now, never give up. Offer a positive vision, with enthusiasm and joy, and an optimistic outlook.
Dalai Lama
#9. Empty yourself by giving with kindness, to fill it with joy again and again.
Debasish Mridha
#10. My girls and I regularly go through their rooms to find clothes and toys to donate to charities. I firmly believe that children who have been given so much need to experience the joy that comes from giving.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#11. It is Love that gives joy to happiness.
Rumi
#12. None of my other investments give me the joy that autographs do because they make me feel that I am holding a piece of history in my hands.
Malcolm Forbes
#13. When you're tempted to be upset, ask yourself 'Is this worth giving up my joy?'
Joel Osteen
#14. We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.
Pope Francis
#15. The process of setting a goal, learning the necessary steps to achieve it, and giving it your best until you've mastered it will generate high self-esteem and pride. Those are feelings associated with joy.
Jude Bijou
#16. Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.
Oprah Winfrey
#18. That the stars are adamant
everyone understands
but I won't give up seeking joy on each blue wave
or peace below every gray stone.
Edith Sodergran
#19. I love to see when ya move with the rhythm; I love to see when you're dancin' from within; It gives great joy to feel such sweet togetherness,
everyone doin' and they're doing their best!
Bob Marley
#21. We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.
Gautama Buddha
#22. What we have to realize is that when the inner voice gives us guidance, it's always going to be for our highest good - and it's always going to bring us more joy than we think.
Echo Bodine
#23. I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
#24. If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.
Dale Carnegie
#25. Great gift-giving involves three things: you feel what the other feels; you give freely; and you count sacrifice a bargain ... those gifts are truly great which are given simply for the joy they bring to another heart.
Henry B. Eyring
#26. The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
Billy Joel
#27. Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness and spreading his fragrance of love everywhere you go. Just keep the joy of Jesus as your strength, be happy and at peace.
Mother Teresa
#28. The Christmas spirit will elude you
'til a selfless love consumes you
and the joy of giving moves you.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#30. You are moving in and out of different advanced states of mind through your practice of meditation and mindfulness. It's that level of excellence that gives you joy in life, not the fact that you won or lost.
Frederick Lenz
#31. The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment.
Winslow Homer
#32. Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts.
George Alexiou
#33. I felt, as a lawyer, when I was mentoring and working with kids, that I gained a level of groundedness that I just couldn't get sitting on the forty-seventh floor of a fancy firm. Selfishly, it gives me joy - it makes me feel like my life has a purpose.
Michelle Obama
#34. To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.
Jean Giraudoux
#35. Discover the joy of giving and you will discover the reason for living.
Mark Victor Hansen
#36. When my mind is clear, I feel like I can give more of myself to those around me and hopefully bring light and joy and an infectious kind of energy to inspire them to do whatever they want to do. That's really the key behind it all.
Julianne Hough
#37. Samadhi is an experience of such depth, such joy, such indifference and such love, that nothing else is really like it or worthwhile in comparison, yet it gives shape, color and meaning to everything.
Frederick Lenz
#38. The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.
John Piper
#39. The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.
Juvenal
#40. It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety
not even joy.
Lillian Gish
#41. Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back.
Glenn Murcutt
#42. We're not aware of the joy of our own immortality. When we give to someone else it opens a doorway and gives us the vision to see those we give to are God. As we see this in others, suddenly we see it within ourselves.
Frederick Lenz
#43. Every day is a great day to give love, spread joy, and SPARKLE!
Sheri Fink
#44. Of course, it's a great joy to be able to perform. And that love affair with an audience, where you give love and they give love back - it's a romantic situation.
Barry Crocker
#45. Give a man love, and he will be happy for a time. Teach a man how to love, and he will have joy through all eternity.
James Wilcox
#46. A flower may die after giving beauty, love, and joy, but it will not vanish. It will transform into a fruit of eternal joy.
Debasish Mridha
#47. If you're giving to get, all you'll receive is disappointment. But if you're giving to give, all you'll receive is joy.
Toni Sorenson
#48. It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security. Find this Presence in yourself and all your difficulties will disappear.
Mirra Alfassa
#49. Composing gives me great pleasure ... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.
Clara Schumann
#50. Carving is a source of joy to the artist ... To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it following one's own desire, or, sometimes, the inspiration of the material itself: this gives the sculptor great joy.
Aristide Maillol
#51. I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
Kahlil Gibran
#52. Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today, I will give something to everyone I come into contact with, and so I will begin the process of circulating joy, wealth and affluence in my life and in the lives of others.
Deepak Chopra
#53. Maximize that which gives you joy: friends, hobbies, religion, etc
Dennis Prager
#54. Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
Thomas Noon Talfourd
#55. You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.
Eileen Caddy
#56. The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
Ellen Glasgow
#57. When one is giving service for the advancement of humanity, when one is working without money and without price, with no hope of earthly reward, there comes a real, genuine joy into the human heart.
Heber J. Grant
#58. Don't expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don't expect your love to be accepted. Love because it justifies your life.
Paulo Coelho
#60. The most successful givers aren't doing it because they're being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.
Seth Godin
#61. Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you.
Mother Teresa
#62. Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don't decide how much and how deeply to love - you respond to the beloved, and give with joy exactly as much as they want.
Marni Jackson
#63. A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
Henry Ward Beecher
#65. Acting is one of the two things that give me the most joy. The other thing is travelling. Nothing else matters to me.
Anushka Sharma
#66. When you meet someone, you can silently send them a blessing, wishing them happiness, joy and laughter. This kind of silent giving is very powerful.
Deepak Chopra
#67. He has infinite happiness not through self-centeredness, but through self-giving, other-centered love. And the only way we, who have been created in his image, can have this same joy, is if we center our entire lives around him instead of ourselves. Why
Timothy Keller
#69. Once we understood that we were giving away God's money to do God's work, we discovered a peace and joy we never had back when we thought it was our money!
Randy Alcorn
#70. When you are sharing your joy, you don't create a prison for anybody. You simply give. You don't even expect gratitude or thankfulness, because you are giving not to get anything, not even gratitude. You
Osho
#71. Joy is the net of love by which we can capture souls. God loves the person who gives with joy. Whoever gives with joy gives more. The best way to show our gratitude to God and to people is to accept with joy.
Mother Teresa
#72. Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.
Norman Vincent Peale
#73. Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks ... and you win joy.
Ann Voskamp
#74. Joy does not come from receiving, but it always fills your heart when you are giving.
Debasish Mridha
#75. I learned that I was never alone, that there was Someone always very close by and, indeed, within me, giving me strength in times of weakness and desolation, light in times of darkness, joy in times of great sorrow and pain, and the will to struggle on when continuing seemed futile.
Joseph F. Girzone
#76. There can be as much joy of giving pleasure as to receive it.
Marina Anderson
#77. I just had a precognition, she told Anna silently,a stream of unspoken love and joy. You will be very happy. Your best friend says go for it.
Annas face was bright, as if someone had set a candle behind it. You're giving me permission?
I'm giving you an order!
L.J.Smith
#78. Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.
Mother Teresa
#79. There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
W. Clement Stone
#80. There seems to be something in our human nature that draws us away from a life-giving relationship with Jesus because it feels more comfortable to focus on what to do and not do. That tendency robs us of real joy and peace.
Chris Hodges
#81. When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again.
Lewis B. Smedes
#82. The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving.
William Arthur Ward
#83. The more you give yourself to others, the more joy and peace will flow into your own life.
Thomas Kinkade
#84. The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give joy to all.
Chanakya
#85. True humility means giving joy to others.
Sri Chinmoy
#86. Long ago I lost the joy in living. The only joy I have is in my giving.
John D. Rockefeller
#87. Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.
Gary Zukav
#88. When my time to die comes an angel will be there to comfort me. He will give me peace and joy even at that most critical hour, and usher me into the presence of God, and I will dwell with the Lord forever. Thank God for the ministry of His blessed angels.
Billy Graham
#89. I think that deep inside, all of humanity knows there's truth here, whether they want to admit it or not. There's a joy that comes in Christmas. There's a season of giving, so people feel this generosity.
Chris Tomlin
#90. In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#91. Giving. What flows away from you flows back magnified: Become a joyful giver.
Mike Todd
#92. Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.
Charles L. Allen
#93. Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight
William Shakespeare
#94. You don't have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here and you are suffering or having joy. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once.
Lucas Samaras
#96. When you are giving, your mind grows wings of joy to fly.
Debasish Mridha
#97. Life is not just for living; life is a gift. Live just for the joy of giving.
Debasish Mridha
#99. At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.
Marianne Williamson
#100. Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.
Pema Chodron
