Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Talmud, The

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

Don't complain because you don't have. Enjoy what you've got.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Leboeuf, Michael

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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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 joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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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

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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'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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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.

36.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Repound, Renee

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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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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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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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

48.

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

49.

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

Sarnoff, David