Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Reade, Charles

Best Quotes about Joy

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Socrates

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

Repound, Renee

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Michel de Montaigne

14.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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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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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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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'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

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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