Motivational Quotes

Joy

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

- Blair, Hugh

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

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

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

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

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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

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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

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

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

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

Lawrence, Harding

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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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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

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'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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