Motivational Quotes

Joy

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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Best Quotes about Joy

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Hogan, Ben

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

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

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Graham, Katherine

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Platen

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Lawrence, Harding

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Repound, Renee

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

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

Depew, Chauncey

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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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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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