Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Michel de Montaigne

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Platen

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

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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 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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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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

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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 joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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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

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

Harvey, Paul

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Bible

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

Quarles, Francis

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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

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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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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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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