Motivational Quotes

Joy

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

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Joy

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

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

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

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

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

10.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

11.

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

Gillies, Jerry

12.

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

13.

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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

15.

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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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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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

18.

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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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

21.

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

22.

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'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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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

25.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

26.

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

Caddy, Eileen

28.

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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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

31.

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

Fremont, Jessie B.

32.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

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

Graham, Katherine

34.

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

Rosten, Leo

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

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

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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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Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripides

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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

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

Lewis, C. S.

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