Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Graham, Katherine

Best Quotes about Joy

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

10.

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

11.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Bach, Richard

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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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.

20.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

25.

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

Mother Teresa

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Homoka, Oscar

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

37.

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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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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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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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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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Sarnoff, David

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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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