Motivational Quotes

Joy

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

- Schwab, Charles M.

Best Quotes about 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

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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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 sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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

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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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Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Phil Jackson

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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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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 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 is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Bible

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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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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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Platen

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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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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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 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.

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