Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Bach, Richard

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 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.

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

Socrates

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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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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

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Biondi, Matt

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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

Earnhardt, Dale