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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Platen

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Thomas Campbell

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Socrates

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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

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

20.

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

Repound, Renee

21.

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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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

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Graham, Katherine

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

28.

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

Lewis, C. S.

29.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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

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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.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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