Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Reade, Charles

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

Mother Teresa

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Caddy, Eileen

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.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

11.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

12.

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

Depew, Chauncey

13.

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

Rohn, Jim

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

16.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

17.

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

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

Rosten, Leo

20.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

21.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

24.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

25.

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

26.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

27.

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

28.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

29.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

30.

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

Graham, Katherine

31.

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

32.

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

33.

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

Harvey, Paul

34.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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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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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

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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

40.

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.

41.

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

Graf, Steffi

42.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

43.

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

44.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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

46.

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 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

48.

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

Platen

49.

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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen