Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Best Quotes about Joy

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Socrates

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

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

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

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

21.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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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 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.

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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 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

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Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

Browning, Robert

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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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