Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joys divided are increased.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

Hepburn, Katharine

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Buddha

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Depew, Chauncey

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

Repound, Renee

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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

16.

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

Socrates

17.

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

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bach, Richard

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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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If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

Graham, Katherine

29.

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

Graf, Steffi

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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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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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

41.

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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'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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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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

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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]