Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Joy

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Bach, Richard

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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... 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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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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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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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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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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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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

Thomas Campbell

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