Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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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

11.

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

Quarles, Francis

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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

28.

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

Bible

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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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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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Thomas Campbell

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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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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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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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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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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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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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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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