Motivational Quotes

Joy

The only joy in the world is to begin.

- Cesare Pavese

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Quarles, Francis

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Chuang Tzu

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

Platen

11.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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 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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Rosten, Leo

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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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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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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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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

32.

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

Harvey, Paul

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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

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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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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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Biondi, Matt

41.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

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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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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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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Lewis, C. S.