Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Biondi, Matt

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

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

'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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Chuang Tzu

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Repound, Renee

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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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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

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

Homoka, Oscar

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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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.

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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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

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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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese