Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

- Richard Wagner

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Graham, Katherine

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

12.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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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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A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

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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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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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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

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

Repound, Renee

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Bible

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

Platen

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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

43.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

47.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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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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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

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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