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

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

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

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

Rosten, Leo

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Repound, Renee

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Socrates

12.

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

16.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

17.

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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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

22.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

24.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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 surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Lawrence, Harding

35.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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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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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

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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

40.

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

Bible

41.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

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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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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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