Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Socrates

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

23.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

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

28.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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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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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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

William Shakespeare

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Michel de Montaigne

40.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

41.

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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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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If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Bible

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

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

Sir Edward Dyer