Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Reade, Charles

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

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

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

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

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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... 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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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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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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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Sir Edward Dyer

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Sarnoff, David

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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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 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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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

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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