Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Joy

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

The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Graf, Steffi

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

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

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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

11.

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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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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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

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You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bach, Richard

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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

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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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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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

31.

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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 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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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

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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 prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa