Motivational Quotes

Joy

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Reade, Charles

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Thackeray, William M.

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

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

10.

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.

11.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Repound, Renee

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Socrates

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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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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Bible

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

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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

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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

42.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.