Motivational Quotes

Joy

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

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

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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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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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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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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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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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bible

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

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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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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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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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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

Repound, Renee