Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

- Wagner, Richard

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Buddha

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Platen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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

Repound, Renee

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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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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... 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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Socrates

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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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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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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

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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

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Sarnoff, David

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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

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

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