Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Reade, Charles

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

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

Harvey, Paul

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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Homoka, Oscar

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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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

33.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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

Platen

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

Biondi, Matt

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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.