Motivational Quotes

Joy

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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.

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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

Graham, Katherine

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

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.

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

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

10.

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

11.

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

Thackeray, William M.

12.

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

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

Platen

14.

I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

15.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

16.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

17.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

18.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

19.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

20.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

21.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

22.

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

23.

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

24.

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

25.

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

26.

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

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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

28.

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

30.

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

Bradbury, Ray

31.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

32.

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

33.

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

34.

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

35.

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

Harvey, Paul

36.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

37.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

38.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

39.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

40.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

42.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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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

48.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

49.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.