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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

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

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

Harvey, Paul

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Repound, Renee

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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.

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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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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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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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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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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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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.