Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Thomas Campbell

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

Repound, Renee

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

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

Socrates

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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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

11.

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

12.

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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Platen

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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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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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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair