Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Joy

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.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Homoka, Oscar

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Dickinson, Emily

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 fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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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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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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

Sir Edward Dyer

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

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Repound, Renee

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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 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 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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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

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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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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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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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