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

Bach, Richard

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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.

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

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

13.

'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

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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Harvey, Paul

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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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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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 your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

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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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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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

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

Earnhardt, Dale

43.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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

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

Repound, Renee

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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

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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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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

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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