Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Platen

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Buddha

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

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

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

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

Vauclain, Samuel

10.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

11.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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

Repound, Renee

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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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

22.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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.

28.

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

Bible

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

Socrates

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Harvey, Paul