Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

- Richard Wagner

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fox, Matthew

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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

32.

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

Socrates

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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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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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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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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

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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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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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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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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Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.