Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lewis, C. S.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

10.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

11.

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.

12.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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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

15.

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

Rosten, Leo

16.

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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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

18.

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

Anderson, Greg

19.

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

Homoka, Oscar

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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

Rohn, Jim

28.

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

29.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

30.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

32.

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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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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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

35.

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

36.

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

Graf, Steffi

37.

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

Sarnoff, David

38.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

39.

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

40.

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

Fox, Matthew

41.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

42.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

43.

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

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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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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

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.