Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Bible

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Bach, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

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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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

11.

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

12.

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

13.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

14.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Depew, Chauncey

18.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

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

Reade, Charles

21.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

23.

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

Chuang Tzu

24.

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

Michel de Montaigne

25.

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

26.

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

27.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

28.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

29.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

31.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

32.

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

Buck, Glen

35.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

William Shakespeare

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

40.

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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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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Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

43.

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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.

46.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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.

48.

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Repound, Renee