Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Socrates

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

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

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

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

12.

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

Bible

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Platen

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What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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

Biondi, Matt

39.

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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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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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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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

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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 joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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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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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