Motivational Quotes

Joy

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Joy

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Joy is free, unrestrained passion

Stukane, Eileen

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

Gillies, Jerry

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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 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

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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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Bach, Richard

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

Repound, Renee

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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

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

Tourneur, Cyril

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

Fox, Matthew

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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

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

Hepburn, Katharine

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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Harvey, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Platen

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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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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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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Rohn, Jim

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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.