Rejoice Quotes

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. (Henry van Dyke)
Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses too long. View quote
Robert Jordan
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice. View quote
John Calvin
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. View quote
Winston Churchill
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. View quote
Golda Meir
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. View quote
H. L. Mencken
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. View quote
Marie Curie
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. View quote
James Baldwin
Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. View quote
Ted Chiang
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. View quote
Theodore Parker
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. View quote
Mark Twain
A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow. View quote
Pythagoras
The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety. View quote
John Donne
I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing "have I labored," neither has my exile been "in vain." View quote
Saint Patrick
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountains start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise. (W. H. Auden)
Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses. View quote
Alphonse Karr
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. View quote
Seneca
Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself. View quote
Samuel Rutherford