Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Socrates

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

Buck, Glen

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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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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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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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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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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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

Bible

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

Platen

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

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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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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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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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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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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

Bradbury, Ray

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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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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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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Harvey, Paul

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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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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 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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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

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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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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

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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