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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Sarnoff, David

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

23.

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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

25.

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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Bradbury, Ray

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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

33.

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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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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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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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Waitley, Denis

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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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

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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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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 is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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'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