Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Buddha

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

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

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

Chuang Tzu

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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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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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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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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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 is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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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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