Gladness Quotes
143 quotes by 113 authors
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What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks…
— Helen Keller
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The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient…
— Lydia M. Child
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
— James Broughton
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Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the…
— Charles Hodge
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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
— Saadi
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Come to earth to taste our sadness, He whose glories knew no end. By His life He brings us gladness, our Redeemer, Shepherd, Friend. Leaving…
— Charles Wesley
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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
— Ossie Davis
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
— Bliss Carman
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
— Ben Jonson
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No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. If…
— Sun Tzu
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Christmas is more that a time of festivities, family, and friends; it is a season of generosity, gladness, and gratitude.
— William Arthur Ward
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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…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a…
— Mark Twain
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My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement.
— Amy B. Lyman
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We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
— Abraham Lincoln
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No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
— Friedrich Schiller
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There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part…
— Charles Eliot Norton
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A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it;…
— Mark Twain
Who Wrote These Gladness Quotes
113 authors contributed a total of 143 Gladness Quotes, led by these top contributors: