Gladness Quotes - Page 3

• 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 it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Moving, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.61, GENERAL PRESS

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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

  Endurance, Events, Needs

  Bliss Carman (1903). “The Kinship of Nature”

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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 gladness.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Firsts

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• Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Honor, Doe, Stakes

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• How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

  John Milton

  Death, Mother, Sleep

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 10”

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• I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

  Ossie Davis

  Joy, Black, Secret

  Ossie Davis (2006). “Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.

  Lillie Langtry

  Garden, Lasting, Pure

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• Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

  Lou Holtz

  Frustration, People, Confusion

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• Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Nature, Men, Sometimes

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.347, London : H. Colburn

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• The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam.

  Myrtle Reed

  Summer, Rivers, Rocks

  Myrtle Reed (2017). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.58, Lindhardt og Ringhof

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• If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On the other hand, if we believe that the earth is ours, and that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields because the Artist in our souls glorifies creation. Surely, it gives dignity to life to believe that we are born into this world for noble ends, and that we have a higher destiny than can be accomplished within the narrow limits of this physical life.

  Helen Keller

  Believe, Artist, Moon

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• Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.

  Bill Vaughan

  Gratitude, Spring, Flower

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• Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Fall, Sunshine, Dark

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• I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And childish loves, and childish cares, and a child's own buoyant gladness Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness; And feelings frozen up full long, and thoughts of long ago, Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Children, Heart, Sadness

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1951). “Poems”, Oxford University Press

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• Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest.

  George Herbert

  Men, Heaven, Ordinary

  'Prayer: Prayer the Church's banquet' (1633)

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• We are only asking you to give to Christ that which you give to others, to transfer the old emotions, the blessed emotions, the exercise of which makes gladness in the life here below, to transfer them to Him, and to rest safe in the Lord. Faith is trust.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Blessed, Exercise, Giving

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped — to reach it. For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.

  Edward Carpenter

  Real, Journey, Thinking

  "Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk - A Study in Social Evolution".

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• And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of out way to God, in supreme delight in Him who is the gladness of our joy, the secret of tranquillity will be ours.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Blessed, Past, Expectations

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Morning, Children, Men

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• Carols of gladness ring from every tree.

  Fanny Kemble

  Tree, Carols, Rings

  Frances Anne Kemble, “Lament Of A Mocking-Bird”

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• Now if I appear to be carefree it's only to camouflage my sadness. In order to keep my pride I try to cover the hurt with a show of gladness.

  Smokey Robinson

  Hurt, Sadness, Pride

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• Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Archer, Arrows

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.

  William Wordsworth

  Sadness, Heaven, Sorrow

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.215

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• Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, April, Plunge

  Rabindranath Tagore (1949). “Collected poems and plays of Rabindranath Tagore”

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• Be content to love, to dazzle in the light,
  If only for moments…
  And then be gone,
  With gladness in your heart,
  Before the creeping shadows
  Claim too much your sadness at leaving.

  Scott Hastie

  Heart, Sadness, Light

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