Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Repound, Renee

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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

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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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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

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Bible

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen