Motivational Quotes

Joy

The only joy in the world is to begin.

- Cesare Pavese

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Reade, Charles

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

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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.

10.

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

13.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Platen

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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

18.

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

Socrates

20.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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

28.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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'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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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

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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

46.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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