Motivational Quotes

Joy

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

- Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

Best Quotes about Joy

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

'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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Buddha

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bible

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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Sarnoff, David

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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 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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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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He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

Blake, William

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Repound, Renee

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

Socrates

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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

William Shakespeare

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec