Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy, has no cost.

- Williamson, Marianne

Best Quotes about Joy

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

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

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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Caddy, Eileen

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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Fielding, Henry

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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

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

Homoka, Oscar

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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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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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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.

19.

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

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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Platen

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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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

33.

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Harvey, Paul

39.

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

Gibbs, Joe

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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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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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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Carnegie, Dale

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.