Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

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

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

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

Rohn, Jim

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Biondi, Matt

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

13.

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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 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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Platen

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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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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Repound, Renee

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.