Motivational Quotes

Joy

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

- Fremont, Jessie B.

Best Quotes about Joy

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mother Teresa

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

William Shakespeare

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

If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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

Platen

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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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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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

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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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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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'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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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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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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Biondi, Matt

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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

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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