Motivational Quotes

Joy

The only joy in the world is to begin.

- Cesare Pavese

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Socrates

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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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

11.

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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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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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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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

18.

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

Biondi, Matt

19.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

25.

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

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

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

Platen

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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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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