Motivational Quotes

Joy

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

- Reade, Charles

Best Quotes about Joy

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Thomas Campbell

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

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

Buck, Glen

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

Biondi, Matt

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Quarles, Francis

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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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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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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

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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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... 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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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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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

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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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.

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

Repound, Renee

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