Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Tourneur, Cyril

Best Quotes about Joy

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Hogan, Ben

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Thomas Campbell

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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

Thackeray, William M.

11.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

12.

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

Lawrence, Harding

13.

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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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

15.

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Bible

17.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

18.

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

23.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

30.

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Carnegie, Dale

34.

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

35.

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

Graf, Steffi

37.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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

40.

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

41.

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

Repound, Renee

42.

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

Waitley, Denis

44.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Platen

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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

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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