Motivational Quotes

Joy

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

- Euripides

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

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.

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

Fox, Matthew

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.

'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

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

William Shakespeare

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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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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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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Depew, Chauncey

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne