Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Leboeuf, Michael

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Bible

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

12.

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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.

18.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

19.

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

Hogan, Ben

20.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

28.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

41.

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

Thackeray, William M.

43.

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 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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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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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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne