Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

- Richard Wagner

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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'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

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Buck, Glen

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The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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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

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

Graham, Katherine

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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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

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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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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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

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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

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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