Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

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

Talmud, The

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

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

Bible

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

10.

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

Vauclain, Samuel

11.

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

12.

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

Gillies, Jerry

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Reade, Charles

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Harvey, Paul

22.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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

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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.

28.

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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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

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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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

33.

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

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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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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Buddha

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ninon de Lenclos