Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

William Shakespeare

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

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

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

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

Socrates

12.

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

Bible

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Repound, Renee

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

23.

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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 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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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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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Platen

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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