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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Thomas Campbell

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Biondi, Matt

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 free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Buddha

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Graham, Katherine

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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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Bible

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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

19.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Platen

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Gillies, Jerry

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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.

32.

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

Rosten, Leo

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

William Shakespeare

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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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May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.