Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ruskin, John

10.

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

Platen

11.

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

Thackeray, William M.

12.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

13.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

14.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

15.

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

Repound, Renee

16.

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

Reade, Charles

18.

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

19.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

20.

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Mother Teresa

25.

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

Quarles, Francis

26.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

27.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.

Wilder, Thornton

28.

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

29.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

30.

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

31.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

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

Bradbury, Ray

33.

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

34.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

36.

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

37.

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

Talmud, The

38.

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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

40.

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

Rohn, Jim

41.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

43.

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

44.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

45.

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

46.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

48.

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

Socrates

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey