Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Ninon de Lenclos

Best Quotes about Joy

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

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

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

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

Fox, Matthew

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

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

Sir Edward Dyer

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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 joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

Reade, Charles

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

Earnhardt, Dale

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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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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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

Thomas Campbell

20.

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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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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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

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

Gibbs, Joe

25.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Carnegie, Dale

30.

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 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 joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.

Ninon de Lenclos

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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 feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Chrysler, Walter

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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

38.

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

Socrates

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

Repound, Renee

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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 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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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