Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Joy

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

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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.

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

Hogan, Ben

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

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 the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Lewis, C. S.

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

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

William Shakespeare

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

Platen

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Judd, H. Stanley

43.

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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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Earnhardt, Dale