Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

- Stukane, Eileen

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Repound, Renee

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

Homoka, Oscar

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

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

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Ninon de Lenclos

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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 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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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 feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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

Rosten, Leo

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Caddy, Eileen

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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Gibbs, Joe

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

Socrates

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

Bach, Richard

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

Michel de Montaigne