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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

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

Buddha

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Earnhardt, Dale

10.

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

11.

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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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

13.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

14.

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

15.

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

20.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

21.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

22.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

23.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

24.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

25.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

26.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

Reade, Charles

29.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

30.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

33.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

35.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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

39.

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

40.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

42.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

43.

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

Gibbs, Joe

44.

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

45.

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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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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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 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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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