Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

10.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Platen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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

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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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For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

26.

I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Rosten, Leo

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Liebman, Joshua Loth

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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

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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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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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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

37.

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Bach, Richard

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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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

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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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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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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

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