Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Graham, Katherine

10.

'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

11.

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

Michel de Montaigne

12.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

15.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

16.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

17.

A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

18.

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

Thackeray, William M.

19.

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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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.

21.

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

Bach, Richard

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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.

23.

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

Reade, Charles

25.

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

Gillies, Jerry

26.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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

28.

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

Lewis, C. S.

29.

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

30.

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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Buck, Glen

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

Thomas Campbell

34.

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

35.

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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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

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

44.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

48.

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

Socrates

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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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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