Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

- Colgrove, Dr. Melba

Best Quotes about Joy

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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

Socrates

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Biondi, Matt

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

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

Lawrence, Harding

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

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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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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Graham, Katherine

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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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If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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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