Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

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

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

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

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

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.

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

Graf, Steffi

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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Rohn, Jim

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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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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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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

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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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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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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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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Socrates

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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Fox, Matthew