Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

Bible

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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

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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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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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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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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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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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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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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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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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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Biondi, Matt

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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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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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 not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

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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 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, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Harvey, Paul

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Bible

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

Sarnoff, David

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'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

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

Marden, Orison Swett