Motivational Quotes

Joy

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Joy

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

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

Bible

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

Gibbs, Joe

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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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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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Repound, Renee

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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

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You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Chuang Tzu

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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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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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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

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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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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

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.