Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Sir Edward Dyer

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

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

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

Buck, Glen

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

Depew, Chauncey

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

12.

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

13.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

14.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

16.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Michel de Montaigne

25.

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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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.

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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

28.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

29.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

30.

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.

31.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

32.

'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

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

35.

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

Bach, Richard

36.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

38.

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

Mother Teresa

39.

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

Repound, Renee

40.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

Howe, Gordie

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

42.

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

43.

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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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

45.

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

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