Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Joy

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

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

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Bible

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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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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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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.

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Repound, Renee

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Harvey, Paul

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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Bach, Richard

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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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.