Motivational Quotes

Joy

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Marden, Orison Swett

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Ninon de Lenclos

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

11.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

12.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Chuang Tzu

14.

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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Quarles, Francis

17.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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

28.

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

29.

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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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

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

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

Harvey, Paul

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

42.

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

Reade, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

49.

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

Mother Teresa

50.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen