Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

10.

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

11.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

14.

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

15.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

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

Anderson, Greg

17.

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

18.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

19.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Bradbury, Ray

21.

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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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

23.

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

Homoka, Oscar

24.

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

25.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

26.

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

27.

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

Hogan, Ben

29.

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

Rohn, Jim

30.

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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

Quarles, Francis

32.

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

Bach, Richard

33.

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

34.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Talmud, The

37.

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

38.

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

39.

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

40.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

41.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

42.

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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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

44.

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

Buddha

45.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

46.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

47.

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

Thomas Campbell

48.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

49.

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

50.

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