Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Tourneur, Cyril

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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.

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

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

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

Platen

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

Graham, Katherine

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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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

William Shakespeare

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Ruskin, John

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Socrates

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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 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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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 sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

42.

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

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

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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

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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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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward