Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Reade, Charles

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

Socrates

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

10.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

11.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Mother Teresa

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

William Shakespeare

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Sarnoff, David

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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

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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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

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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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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

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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 joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Harvey, Paul

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

45.

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

46.

If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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

Buddha

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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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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