Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

Browning, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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

Chuang Tzu

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

10.

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

11.

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

Biondi, Matt

12.

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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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

14.

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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

16.

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

Carnegie, Dale

17.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

18.

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

Lawrence, Harding

19.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

21.

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

Graham, Katherine

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

23.

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

24.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

25.

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

Bible

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

27.

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

Hogan, Ben

28.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

33.

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

34.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

35.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Talmud, The

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Sarnoff, David

40.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Earnhardt, Dale

44.

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

Platen

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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

47.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Tourneur, Cyril