Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Hogan, Ben

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Caddy, Eileen

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Thomas Campbell

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Graf, Steffi

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

Platen

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

11.

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

Harvey, Paul

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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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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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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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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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

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Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

23.

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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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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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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Thackeray, William M.

28.

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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Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

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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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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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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

41.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Lawrence, Harding

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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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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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There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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

Bible

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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