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

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.

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

Rohn, Jim

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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

Homoka, Oscar

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Bible

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

Graham, Katherine

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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Repound, Renee

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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

Bach, Richard

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Platen

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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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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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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

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

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

Socrates

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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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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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