Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Graham, Katherine

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.

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

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

Platen

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Michel de Montaigne

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Quarles, Francis

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Socrates

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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 is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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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 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

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You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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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

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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

Bible

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