Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Quarles, Francis

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

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

Buck, Glen

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

'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

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

Thackeray, William 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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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

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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 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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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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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.

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

Biondi, Matt

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

26.

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

Bible

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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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

36.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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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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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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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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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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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell