Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

- Stukane, Eileen

Best Quotes about Joy

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Buddha

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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.

Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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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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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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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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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

William Shakespeare

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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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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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 not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Bible

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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