Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

- Richard Wagner

Best Quotes about Joy

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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

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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.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Talmud, The

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

Chuang Tzu

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!