Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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

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

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Depew, Chauncey

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Mother Teresa

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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

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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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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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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