Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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'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

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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.

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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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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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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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Gibbs, Joe

31.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Hogan, Ben

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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