Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

William Shakespeare

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

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.

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

10.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

11.

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

12.

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

Platen

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

Buddha

15.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

16.

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

Rosten, Leo

17.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

18.

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

19.

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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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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Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

22.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

23.

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 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

25.

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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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

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The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

28.

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

29.

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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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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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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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

33.

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

34.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

35.

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

Caddy, Eileen

36.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

37.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

38.

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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

40.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

41.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Bible

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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 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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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

47.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]