Motivational Quotes

Joy

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Joy

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

10.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

12.

We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

13.

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

15.

Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

16.

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

18.

You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

19.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

20.

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

21.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

22.

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.

Liebman, Joshua Loth

24.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

25.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

29.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

30.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

31.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

32.

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

33.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

34.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

35.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

38.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

39.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

40.

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

43.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

44.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

45.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

49.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

50.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius