Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Reade, Charles

Best Quotes about Joy

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

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

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

Buddha

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.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

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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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

13.

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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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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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

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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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If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

18.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

19.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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

21.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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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'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

25.

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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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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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

28.

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

29.

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

Thomas Campbell

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

33.

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

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Socrates

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

William Shakespeare

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

44.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis