Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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

Hill, Napoleon

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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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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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

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.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Bible

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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

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

Socrates

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

Platen

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Graham, Katherine

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

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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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Bible

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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