Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

- Wagner, Richard

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

'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

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

10.

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

12.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

18.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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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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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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

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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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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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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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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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.

32.

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

Quarles, Francis

34.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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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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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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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

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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.

39.

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

Rosten, Leo

40.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Bach, Richard

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Joy runs deeper than despair