Motivational Quotes

Joy

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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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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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Repound, Renee

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Socrates

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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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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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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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.