Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Joy

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Fox, Matthew

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

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

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

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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Buck, Glen

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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

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What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bradbury, Ray

31.

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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Platen

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

Graham, Katherine

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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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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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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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 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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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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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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People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

Gibbs, Joe

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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