Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

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

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Ninon de Lenclos

11.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

12.

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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Graham, Katherine

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

William Shakespeare

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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 feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Ruskin, John

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

31.

Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Bach, Richard