Motivational Quotes

Joy

The only joy in the world is to begin.

- Cesare Pavese

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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.

'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

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

Bible

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

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

Buddha

11.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

16.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Socrates

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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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

35.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Rosten, Leo

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

48.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.