Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Tourneur, Cyril

Best Quotes about Joy

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Platen

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Hogan, Ben

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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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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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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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

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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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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

18.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Repound, Renee

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

24.

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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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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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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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

30.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

31.

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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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

34.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Depew, Chauncey

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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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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 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.

43.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

45.

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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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

50.

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

Graham, Katherine