Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Depew, Chauncey

Best Quotes about Joy

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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Depew, Chauncey

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.

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

10.

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

Thackeray, William M.

11.

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

12.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

17.

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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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

19.

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

20.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

21.

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

22.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

23.

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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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

25.

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

Bach, Richard

26.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

27.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

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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

31.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

33.

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

Platen

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Gillies, Jerry

39.

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

Socrates

40.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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

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

Bible

44.

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

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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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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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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.

48.

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

William Shakespeare