Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Hepburn, Katharine

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Repound, Renee

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Reade, Charles

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

Graham, Katherine

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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Bach, Richard

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

43.

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

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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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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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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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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