Motivational Quotes

Joy

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Socrates

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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

11.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Bach, Richard

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

18.

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

Graham, Katherine

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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

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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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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

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

Rosten, Leo

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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

40.

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

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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

46.

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 what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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