Motivational Quotes

Joy

The only joy in the world is to begin.

- Cesare Pavese

Best Quotes about Joy

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

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

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

Earnhardt, 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

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Ninon de Lenclos

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Fox, Matthew

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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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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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Hogan, Ben

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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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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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

Macinness, Helen

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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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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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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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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My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

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

Caddy, Eileen

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Thackeray, William M.

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Anderson, Greg

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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