Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Depew, Chauncey

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Bach, Richard

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Vauclain, Samuel

10.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

11.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

12.

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

13.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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

15.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

16.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

17.

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

18.

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

Thomas Campbell

19.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

20.

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

23.

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

24.

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

Fox, Matthew

25.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

26.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

27.

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

28.

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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The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

30.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

32.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

33.

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

34.

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

37.

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

Harvey, Paul

38.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

39.

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

40.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

41.

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

Buddha

42.

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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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

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

45.

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

46.

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 only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese