Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Earnhardt, Dale

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Chuang Tzu

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Hogan, Ben

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

11.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

18.

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

Graham, Katherine

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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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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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

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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

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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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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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.

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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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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