Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

Best Quotes about Joy

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Thomas Campbell

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Keyes Jr., Ken

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Earnhardt, Dale

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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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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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

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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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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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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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Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Gillies, Jerry

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There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Pearl Buck

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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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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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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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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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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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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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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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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

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

Socrates

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry