Motivational Quotes

Joy

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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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

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

Buddha

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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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