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

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Graham, Katherine

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

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

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

Socrates

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

10.

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

11.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

12.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

13.

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

Bach, Richard

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thackeray, William M.

25.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Lawrence, Harding

27.

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

Carnegie, Dale

28.

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

Platen

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

33.

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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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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 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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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

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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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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