Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

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Best Quotes about Joy

Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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

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

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

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

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Sarnoff, David

10.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

11.

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

12.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

13.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

14.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

16.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Bach, Richard

20.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

24.

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

Graham, Katherine

25.

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

Thackeray, William M.

26.

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

27.

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

Bradbury, Ray

28.

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

Platen

29.

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

30.

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

Ruskin, John

31.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

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

33.

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

36.

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

Harvey, Paul

37.

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

Socrates

38.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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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

40.

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

41.

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

Hogan, Ben

42.

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

43.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

44.

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

45.

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

Talmud, The

46.

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

47.

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

48.

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

49.

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

50.

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry