Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Anderson, Greg

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Chuang Tzu

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

10.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

12.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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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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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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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.

24.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Bible

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

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

41.

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 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.

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Graham, Katherine

46.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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

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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