Motivational Quotes

Joy

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Bible

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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

Earnhardt, Dale

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

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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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.

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Biondi, Matt

23.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Platen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Socrates

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.