Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Joy

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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

Reade, Charles

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Thackeray, William M.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Anderson, Greg

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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

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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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The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rohn, Jim

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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Bible

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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

39.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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