Motivational Quotes

Joy

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

- Secker, Thomas

Best Quotes about Joy

'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

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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Judd, H. Stanley

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

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

Bible

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Repound, Renee

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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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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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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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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Buck, Glen

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Reade, Charles

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bach, Richard

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Quarles, Francis

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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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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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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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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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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

Harvey, Paul