Motivational Quotes

Joy

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

- Macinness, Helen

Best Quotes about Joy

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Chuang Tzu

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

Buck, Glen

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

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

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

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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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Platen

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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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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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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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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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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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