Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joy runs deeper than despair

- Boom, Corrie Ten

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

10.

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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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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 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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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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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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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

Gillies, Jerry

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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Leacock, Stephen B.

28.

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

Biondi, Matt

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

Thomas Campbell

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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

35.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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

37.

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

Repound, Renee

39.

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

Socrates

40.

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

Bible

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Buck, Glen

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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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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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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stanislaw J. Lec