Motivational Quotes

Joy

The only joy in the world is to begin.

- Cesare Pavese

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

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

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

William Shakespeare

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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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.

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Quarles, Francis

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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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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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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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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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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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne