Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Earnhardt, Dale

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Shaw, George Bernard

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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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

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Fox, Matthew

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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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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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Thomas Campbell

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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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 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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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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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Socrates

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

Biondi, Matt

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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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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.