Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

'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

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Chuang Tzu

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

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

Buddha

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

Repound, Renee

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Socrates

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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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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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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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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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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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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

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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 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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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