Motivational Quotes

Joy

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Talmud, The

11.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

12.

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

14.

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

15.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

17.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

18.

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

21.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

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

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

24.

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

Fox, Matthew

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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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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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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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

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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

39.

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

Platen

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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

44.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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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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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, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne