Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

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Best Quotes about Joy

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

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Beecher, Henry Ward

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Sarnoff, David

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Repound, Renee

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Bible

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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

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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

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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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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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

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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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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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We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Thomas Campbell

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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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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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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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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.

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