Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Mother Teresa

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

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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

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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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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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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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! [Philippians 4:4]

Bible

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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 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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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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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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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

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If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

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

William Shakespeare

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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Nicklaus, Jack

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Graham, Katherine

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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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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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

Rosten, Leo

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach