Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

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

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

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

Socrates

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Harvey, Paul

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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Bible

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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

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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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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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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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

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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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

Platen

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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 joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.