Motivational Quotes

Joy

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

- Secker, Thomas

Best Quotes about Joy

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Mother Teresa

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Thomas Campbell

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

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Fox, Matthew

10.

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

Bach, Richard

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

18.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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.

21.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

29.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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

31.

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

Repound, Renee

33.

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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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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

42.

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

Caddy, Eileen

43.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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