Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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

Reade, Charles

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

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

Quarles, Francis

10.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

17.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

18.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

20.

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

21.

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

Sarnoff, David

22.

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

Buck, Glen

23.

'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

24.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

25.

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

26.

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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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

28.

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

Platen

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

31.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

32.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

33.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

35.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Bradbury, Ray

39.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

40.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

41.

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

Anderson, Greg

42.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

43.

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

44.

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

Bach, Richard

45.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.