Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Reade, Charles

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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.

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

Repound, Renee

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Caddy, Eileen

12.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

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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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Harvey, Paul

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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

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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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'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

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

Platen

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Bible

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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

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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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

36.

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

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Mother Teresa

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Bach, Richard

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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