Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

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Best Quotes about Joy

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

If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.

Vauclain, Samuel

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Rohn, Jim

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Bach, Richard

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Bible

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

Socrates

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

18.

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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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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

22.

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

27.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

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

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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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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

Nin, Anais

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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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

39.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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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