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

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Buddha

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Biondi, Matt

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Thomas Campbell

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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

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Platen

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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

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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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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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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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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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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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Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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

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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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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