Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

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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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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.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Socrates

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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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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 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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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