Motivational Quotes

Joy

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Joy

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Quarles, Francis

'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

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

Platen

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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

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

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

Joy, has no cost.

Williamson, Marianne

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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

11.

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

Bible

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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

17.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Wagner, Richard

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

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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The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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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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Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Richard Wagner

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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He enjoys much who is thankful for little.

Secker, Thomas

39.

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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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

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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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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Blair, Hugh

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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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Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.