Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Repound, Renee

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

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

Bible

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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

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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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

19.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

William Shakespeare

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

Socrates

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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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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 joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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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.

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Platen

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Caddy, Eileen

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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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 enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas