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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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 joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

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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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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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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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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

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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

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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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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Platen

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

Thomas Campbell

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

24.

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

Bach, Richard

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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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

Sarnoff, David

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Buddha

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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