Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy, has no cost.

- Williamson, Marianne

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Sarnoff, David

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

10.

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

11.

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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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 only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Thomas Campbell

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

17.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

18.

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

19.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

20.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

22.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

27.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

28.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Bach, Richard

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The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

32.

... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

33.

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

Rosten, Leo

34.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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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

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Ninon de Lenclos

44.

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

Carnegie, Dale

45.

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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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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lewis, C. S.

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