Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

- Stukane, Eileen

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Thomas Campbell

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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.

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

Bible

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

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

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

10.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Biondi, Matt

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

16.

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.

17.

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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

Quarles, Francis

24.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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.

28.

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

Gillies, Jerry

29.

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

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

32.

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

Socrates

33.

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

34.

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

William Shakespeare

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

41.

The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

43.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

45.

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

Talmud, The

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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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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

48.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Hill, Napoleon