Motivational Quotes

Joy

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

- Michel de Montaigne

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Platen

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

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

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

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

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

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

10.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

13.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

14.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

15.

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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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

17.

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

Repound, Renee

18.

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

Socrates

19.

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

20.

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

21.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

25.

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.

26.

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

Depew, Chauncey

27.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

28.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

29.

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

30.

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

31.

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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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Quarles, Francis

35.

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

Graham, Katherine

36.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

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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

45.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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, 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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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