Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy, has no cost.

- Williamson, Marianne

Best Quotes about Joy

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

10.

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

Buddha

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

15.

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

Hogan, Ben

16.

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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

18.

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

Socrates

19.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

20.

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

Repound, Renee

21.

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

22.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Platen

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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

25.

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

26.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

27.

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

Graf, Steffi

28.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

29.

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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

31.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

33.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

34.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

35.

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

36.

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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

39.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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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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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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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis