Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

- Richard Wagner

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Anderson, Greg

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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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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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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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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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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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'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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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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

Fox, Matthew

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

William Shakespeare

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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