Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy runs deeper than despair

- Boom, Corrie Ten

Best Quotes about Joy

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Carnegie, Dale

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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

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

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

Socrates

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

Leboeuf, Michael

13.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Depew, Chauncey

18.

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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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

20.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

21.

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

Sarnoff, David

22.

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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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

24.

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

25.

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

Platen

27.

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

28.

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

Caddy, Eileen

31.

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.

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

Rohn, Jim

33.

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

39.

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

40.

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

Gillies, Jerry

41.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

45.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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.

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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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