Motivational Quotes

Joy

'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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

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

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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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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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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

Graham, Katherine

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Bible

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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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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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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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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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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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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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