Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Buck, Glen

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Rohn, Jim

'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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

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

Biondi, Matt

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

10.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

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

Repound, Renee

12.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

16.

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

17.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

18.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

19.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

27.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

28.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

33.

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

Hogan, Ben

34.

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

Reade, Charles

35.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

36.

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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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

38.

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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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

40.

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

41.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

42.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

43.

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

Homoka, Oscar

44.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

45.

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

Quarles, Francis

47.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

48.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

49.

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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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.