Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

- Richard Wagner

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

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

Buck, Glen

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

Thomas Campbell

10.

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

Harvey, Paul

11.

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

Socrates

13.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living.

Repound, Renee

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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

18.

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

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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... 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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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

34.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hepburn, Katharine

39.

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

40.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Graham, Katherine

48.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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