Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Michel de Montaigne

Best Quotes about Joy

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

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

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

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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

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

Graham, Katherine

10.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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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 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 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 best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Platen

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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