Motivational Quotes

Joy

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Joy

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.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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.

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

Biondi, Matt

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

11.

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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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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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

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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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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 is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Platen

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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

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.