Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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.

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

Bible

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

10.

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

Homoka, Oscar

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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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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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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

25.

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

Repound, Renee

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Harvey, Paul

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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.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Fox, Matthew

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.