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

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Graham, Katherine

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

10.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

11.

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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

Homoka, Oscar

14.

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

15.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

18.

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

19.

Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bible

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

Quarles, Francis

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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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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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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What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Sarnoff, David

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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

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides