Motivational Quotes

Joy

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Joy

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

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

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

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

10.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

11.

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

12.

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

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

Platen

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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Bach, Richard

17.

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.

18.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

22.

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

25.

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

Graham, Katherine

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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 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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

31.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Thomas Campbell

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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

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

Harvey, Paul

42.

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 feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

44.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Repound, Renee

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

Bible

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

Gibbs, Joe