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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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

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

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

Homoka, Oscar

If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

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

Hill, Napoleon

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

10.

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

11.

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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

14.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

19.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Bach, Richard

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von

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

William Shakespeare

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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.

40.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

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

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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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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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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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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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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