Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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

11.

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

12.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

13.

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

15.

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

Platen

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

19.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

30.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

32.

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

Fox, Matthew

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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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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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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

40.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

42.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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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

48.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa